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I built a Jira clone application with Angular 9, Akita and ng-zorro

There have been a handful of cool Jira-cloned apps written in React/VueJS, which makes me wonder Why not Angular? And here you go.

This is not only a simplified Jira clone built with Angular 9, but also an example of a modern, real-world Angular codebase.

Source code

https://github.com/trungvose/jira-clone-angular

Working application

Check out the live demo -> https://jira.trungk18.com

Jira clone built with Angular 9 and Akita

If you like my work, feel free to:

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⭐ this repository. And we will be happy together :)

Thanks a bunch for stopping by and supporting me!

Who is it for 🤷‍♀️

I have been working with Angular for about four years. I built cool stuff at Zyllem but almost all of them are internal apps which is difficult to show.

This is a showcase application I’ve built in my spare time to experiment the new library that I wanted to try before: Akita, TailwindCSS, ng-zorro.

There are many Angular examples on the web but most of them are way too simple. I like to think that this codebase contains enough complexity to offer valuable insights to Angular developers of all skill levels while still being relatively easy to understand.

This piece of work is also part of our technical series angular-vietnam/100-days-of-angular which aims at enabling everyone, after 100 days of learning Angular with us, to self-build their application with the similar scale. Our desire is to advocate and grow the Angular developer community in Vietnam.

Tech stack

Tech logos

Angular CLI
Akita state management
NestJS
UI modules:
- TailwindCSS
- Angular CDK drag and drop
- ng-zorro UI component: tooltip, modal, select, icon and more.
- ngx-quill
Netlify
Heroku

Features and Roadmap

I set the tentative deadline for motivating myself to finish the work on time. Otherwise, It will take forever to complete :)

Phase 1 - Angular application and simple Nest API

June 13 - 27, 2020

Proven, scalable, and easy to understand project structure
Simple drag and drop kanban board
Add/update issue
Search/filtering issues
Add comments

Noted: All of your interactions with data such as leave a comment or change the issue detail will not be saved to the persistent database. Currently, the application will serve a fixed structure of data every time you open the app. It means if you reload the browser, all of your changes will be gone.

Phase 2 will bring you a proper API where you can log in and save your work.

While working with this application, I have the opportunity to revisit some of the interesting topics:

TailwindCSS configuration - that’s awesome
Scrollable layout with Flexbox
Deploy Angular application to Netlify

I will take two weeks break to:

Fix bugs and UI enhancements for Angular Jira clone.
Continue working with the typescript-data-structures repo.

Phase 2

July 10 - 25, 2020

Refactor the mono repo to use Nx Workspace
GraphQL API and store data on the actual database
Authentication
Websocket realtime update
Interactive report

Tutorial

When I look at the application, it is huge. When the task is huge, you usually don’t know where and how to start working with them. I started to break the big task into a simple to-do list on notion. Once I know what needs to be done, what I need is to follow the plan. That’s my approach.

I learned a lot of stuff. I know you might also have a curiosity about the process of building the same scale app as well. That’s why I am writing a tutorial series on how I built Angular Jira clone from scratch. I hope you guys will learn something from that too :)

I will try to be as detailed as possible. Hopefully through the tutorial, you will get the idea and will start working on your own application soon. Please bear with me.

Its series will also be published in Vietnamese as part of our angular-vietnam/100-days-of-angular.

Part	Description	Status
00	Behind the 900 stars repository - Slide	Done
00	Behind a thousand stars repository - Angular Air	Done
00	Prerequisites	Done
01	Create a new repository and set up a new Angular application with CLI	Done
02	Build the application layout with flex and TailwindCSS	Done
03	Setup Akita state management	Done
04	Build an editable textbox	Done
05	Build an interactive drag and drop board	Done
06	Build a markdown text editor	Done
07	Build a rich text HTML editor	Done
08	Create placeholder loading (like Facebook’s cards loading)	Done

Time spending

It is a side project that I only spent time outside of the office hours to work on. One day, my team and I were fire fighting on PROD until 11 PM. After taking a shower, I continue with Angular Jira clone for another two hours…

According to waka time report, I have spent about 45 hours working on this project. Which is equivalent to watch the whole Stranger Things series twice.

I really enjoyed working on this project. The interactive kanban board took me sometimes, it is challenging but exciting at the same time.

Jira clone built with Angular 9 and Akita - Time spending

What’s currently missing?

There are missing features from the live demo which should exist in a real product. All of them will be finished on Phase 2:

Proper backend API

I built a very simple NestJS API to send a fixed data structure to the client. All of your interactivity with data will only be saved on the memory. If you refresh the page, it will be gone. Phase 2 will bring the application to live by saving the data into a database.

Proper authentication system 🔐

I am currently sending the same email and a random password to the server without any check to get the current user back. Phase 2 will also bring a proper authentication system.

Accessibility ♿

Not all components have properly defined aria attributes, visual focus indicators, etc.

Setting up development environment 🛠

git clone https://github.com/trungvose/jira-clone-angular.git
cd jira-clone-angular
npm run start:back for the API
The API server should run on http://localhost:3000
npm run start:front for angular web application
The app should run on http://localhost:4200/

Unit/Integration tests 🧪

I skipped writing test for this project. I might do it for the proper backend GraphQL API.

Compatibility

It was being tested on IE 11, Chrome and Firefox. For Safari, there are some minor alignment issues.

Author: Trung Vo ✍️

A young and passionate front-end engineer. Working with Angular and TypeScript. Like photography, running, cooking, and reading books.
Personal blog: https://trungk18.com/
Say hello: trungk18 [et] gmail [dot] com