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WeKan: Open-Source Meteor Kanban
- djmashko2 11y agoI wonder if Maxime has considered using the newly announced Meteor-Electron project to package this as a desktop app - I am really in the market for a simple, open source task tracker that I can run as a desktop app so that I can alt-tab and similar.
- joeyspn 11y agoA simple wrapper like nativefier should suffice... https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier
- smashed 11y agoAwesome work. Contrats to all the team involved.
- based2 11y agosrc: http://korben.info/wekan-un-clone-de-trello-a-heberger-vous-meme.html http://korben.info/wekan-un-clone-de-trello-a-heberger-vous-...
- SNvD7vEJ 11y agoExcellent work. But why does the browser history get so polluted? (Every click in the app seems to add an entry in the browser history.)
- teen 11y agonoticed this as well. super cool demo though.
- ngmaloney 11y agoAesthetically, the app looks great. Is it normal for there to be zero test coverage in a meteor app? That concerns me. I did see this thread in the issue tracker: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/467 https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/467
- Lazare 11y ago> Is it normal for there to be zero test coverage in a meteor app? In my experience, yes. Meteor has traditionally had a culture that focused a lot on tech demos and experimental projects, rather than stability and production. Sort of the anti-Angular 1.x. :) (Man, I wonder if that comparison will annoy Angular fans or Meteor fans more? But I think it has some truth in it.)
- alanning 11y agoInitially Meteor didn't have any support for testing apps. Since it has always had support for testing packages, teams generally had to split their app up into several private packages to allow for testing (with benefits to modularity too). The Velocity project [1] was started to address this issue and now supports testing apps with Jasmine, Cucumber, and Mocha. There are also individual testing frameworks for Meteor apps such as Nightwatch (now StarryNight). Even with Velocity, testing a Meteor app is not as easy to set up as testing a Rails app so I would guess most teams don't make it a priority unless they are going into production. Packages, however, are another story and my impression is that all of the most popular packages [2] have fairly extensive test suites. 1. http://velocity.meteor.com http://velocity.meteor.com 2. https://atmospherejs.com/packages/most-used https://atmospherejs.com/packages/most-used
- Touche 11y ago> Initially Meteor didn't have any support for testing apps. I don't understand what this means... why do you need a framework to "support" testing. Can't you just... write a test using QUnit or Mocha or Tape or whatever you like?
- jimbobimbo 11y agoThe framework can make or break your testing. If it's very hard or impossible to mock parts of the framework, your testing will be significantly hindered.
- sergiotapia 11y agoYes, Meteor apps generally do not have tests. There is not a test tool that integrates to it well. At best there's Velocity but that's been deprecated for Chimp or some other tool. Pretty bad situation.
- mattbee 11y agoI love WeKan - we use at at Bytemark (www.bytemark.co.uk) for our internal to-do board - high level project tracking across the company with 28 staff.
- medlazik 11y agoI've been looking for an on-premise Trello for months and WeKan seems to be the best option for now. How would you guys feel about deploying such a project for 300 people? Too soon?
- the_common_man 11y agoAs pointed out in another comment, there are no tests. Developer confidence doesn't matter at that point. You can help them out at https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/467 https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/467
- medlazik 11y agoThanks. I realize how premature my wish is but unfortunately not in my qualifications to help on the project. Modern group chat and Kanban are two apps my users desperately want and I can't deliver unless I capitulate to our cloud overlords, such a sad state of the industry.
- teen 11y agoAwesome project, as a total aside, isn't there an issue with using Trello's name on your site?
- Buttons840 11y agoWhy would referring to Trello by its name be illegal? They do not make any false statements!wnts about Trello.
- the_common_man 11y agoTook me a while to find this but https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Install-and-Update https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Install-and-Update contains the instructions to install
- ThePhysicist 11y agoI recently built a Kanban board for Github using react: https://adewes.github.io/gitboard https://adewes.github.io/gitboard It's fully client-side and doesn't require a server or giving a third party access to your Github account, and it's open-source.
- hatsix 11y agoAm I missing the 'kanban' part? This just looks like a Trello clone to me. Is there anything actually relating to kanban built in? Like limiting the # of items, tracking cycle time, etc? I can't find ANY settings anywhere. Also, I can't figure out what a 'Grain' is. I think it might be a 'Board', but when I click on an App, it loads a page w/ boards, that isn't the same page as 'Grains' So, no tests, no documentation, no settings, so kanban-specific features.
- detaro 11y agoThe Grain/App thing isn't from Wekan, but from Sandstorm.io which they use for the demo. A "grain" in sandstorm-terminology is an instance of an app (e.g. Wekan) on a sandstorm.io server.
- jorgecurio 11y agobut will it scale because of meteor and mongodb
- neil_s 11y agoI can't seem to scroll the homepage. Latest stable Chrome. Windows 10. Touch screen. Scrolling using mouse scrollwheel as well as trackpad gesture.
- kentonv 11y agoThere's nothing on the homepage under the screenshot. I think it just doesn't scroll.
- xuesj 11y agoIt's a nice tools for dev and project management.I will try it at our team.