Itachi Uchiha

Posted on Feb 11, 2019

I need advice for UI improvement.

#discuss

Hi everyone.

I created a basic Vue project. It fetches pulls requests and issues of the current week from dev.to' GitHub repository.

Website Here: https://aligoren.github.io/dev-recap/

GitHub Repo Here: https://github.com/aligoren/dev-recap

I know, it really looks bad. Because I just spent only 10 minutes. So, I didn't have time to think about UI. Now, what should I do to more beautify it?

What is your advice?

Top comments (10)

Mikhail Korolev • Feb 11 '19 • Edited

Nice job! This definitely comes in handy.

I did a very brief restyle to match the original dev.to design.

Swapped a full-screen container-fluid with the regular container for better readability. This may be against the idea of a "dashboard", but I personally think that it's way easier to read through this way.
Added extra margin to "Pull Requests" and "Issues" headers by replacing "text-primary" with "mb-4" class.
Removed an exclamation mark inside jumbotron and bumped the header up to h2

/* dev.to-colors and a small bottom margin for better readability */
body {
    background-color: #F9F9FA;
    margin-bottom: 3rem;
}

/* cards and link colors mimic the site style */

.card {
    box-shadow: 3px 3px 0px #bababa;
}

.text-primary, a {
    color: #6A6EED!important;
}

/* shrink jumbotron to a header-sensible size, 
   base64 dev logo that is hidden on small screens 
   slightly mimic the site top bar
   user bio-styled timestamps
*/

.jumbotron {
    background-color: #FDF9F3;
    border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.33);
    box-shadow: 0 2px 4px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.13);
    background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position:right;
    color: black;
    background-size: 24%;
    background-position-x: 97%;
    padding: 3rem;
    border-top-right-radius: 0;
    border-top-left-radius: 0;
}

.jumbotron p {
    font-weight: 400;
    color: #666666;
    font-style: italic;
    font-size: 0.88em;
}

.jumbotron h2 {
    text-transform: uppercase;
}

@media (max-width: 768px) {
.jumbotron {
    background-image: none;
}
}

Itachi Uchiha • Feb 11 '19

Yeah. It looks amazing. <3 Thanks. If you have some information about Vue, you can open PR or I can do.

Thanks a lot :)

Mikhail Korolev • Feb 11 '19

Sure thing, I can come up with a PR later today!

Itachi Uchiha • Feb 11 '19

Thanks :)

Mikhail Korolev • Feb 11 '19

The PR should be out now. I've added a simple background to code blocks as suggested below, but that lacks syntax highlighting.

Itachi Uchiha • Feb 11 '19 • Edited

I merged it. But there should be a joke. I'm getting "Page not found"

github.com/aligoren/dev-recap/tree...

But files under the gh-pages branch looks normal.

Update:

I pushed again. It works now :)

Glenn Carremans • Feb 11 '19

It seems to also show Pull Requests in the Issues column. This might explain why, from the Github API docs:

Note: GitHub's REST API v3 considers every pull request an issue, but not every issue is a pull request. For this reason, "Issues" endpoints may return both issues and pull requests in the response. You can identify pull requests by the pull_request key.

Be aware that the id of a pull request returned from "Issues" endpoints will be an issue id. To find out the pull request id, use the "List pull requests" endpoint.

Antonio Radovcic • Feb 11 '19

It doesn't look bad at all! It's not a lifestyle-blog, it's a dev-tool.

Right now the left row is empty, which makes it look a bit broken. You could add a light-gray message like "no pull-requests pending" or something.

You could also add a bg-color to the code-snippets, to make them more discernable.

Itachi Uchiha • Feb 11 '19

Thanks :) I'll add a simple syntax highlighter. This could be good.

Glenn Carremans • Feb 15 '19

I see my previous comment has been added already 😉

Added check for issues to see if they are pull requests #1

flouou commented on Feb 12, 2019

Github api provides pull requests even though it's the issue endpoint. Pull requests can be identified by the existence of the property "pull_request"

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Another suggestion would be to add author info, there is user info (name, avatar, profile link, ...) available in the API response.

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I need advice for UI improvement.

Top comments (10)

Added check for issues to see if they are pull requests #1

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