API

Over the past few days, while developing a dashboard, I came into contact with the Trello and GitHub APIs, and I organized some of the information. If you also need to use the GitHub API, you may want to read this post. GitHub also uses the RESTful HTTP API style, so it is very simple to develop with, and it is especially easy to pick up if you have experience integrating HTTP APIs. In my opinion, the GitHub API is one of the most API-friendly I have seen. Not only is the documentation easy to understand, but the API also offers a very complete set of parameters to choose from. There is even a GraphQL API planned for the future, which is really exciting! ...

Today I was building a dashboard for my company, and I needed a program that calculates the daily development points so the dashboard could show how the points change month by month. So I played around with the Trello API, and here are my quick notes. Some background: our department estimates development progress with Scrum points. Each issue gets a difficulty point value, and we use it together with the Trello Scrum plugin. ...