OctoView

OctoView is a general copy of kingofzeal/GithubDashboard, with the intention of creating a more robust front-end than was originally planned.

The intention of this project is to create a website that is an alternative view of certain Github information. Specifically, instead of being repository-focused, this is branch/feature-focused.

General Vision

1. Users log into a website
2. Users will see a list of branches attached to every repository as the primary grouping. a. Under each branch will be easy repository that branch is found in. b. If the branch has a Pull Request associated with it, it will show information about the PR, including reviews and merge status

This allows for an easier and automated view of projects that span multiple repositories.

Additional features

1. Users can customize which repositories are examined
2. Users can manually associate/group branches (eg, feature/featureAbcdefg and feature/featureAbcdef are the same 'project' and thus get shown together)
3. Most information shown links to the Github source for that information (eg, PRs, reviews, branches, repos)

Setting up Development Environment

The application uses Github OAuth. To prevent the OAuth client and secret from being committed to the repository, the application supports User Secrets. To set them up:

1. Right-click on the OctoView.Web project and select Manage User Secrets. This will open a secrets.json file.
2. Populate the secrets.json file with the following:

{
  "AppSettings": {
    "GithubClientId": "",
    "GithubClientSecret": ""
  }
}

3. Adjust the values of the properties as appropriate. The secrets.json file is stored in your user profile folder, not the project directory, so cannot be commited. However, any values entered into secrets.json will override the respective values of the appsettings.json of the project. You can also use this to adjust the database connection string, if desired.