Build a dashboard that shows any developer’s public GitHub activity at a glance, and learn to work with a real public API, its rate limits and its data.
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This challenge gets you working with a real public API from end to end. Build a dashboard where anyone types a GitHub username and sees a clear picture of that developer’s public work: their most active repositories, the languages they use, recent activity, and the projects with the most stars.
It’s small enough for a few days, visual enough to show in a portfolio, and it teaches skills you’ll use in any job: reading API documentation, handling loading and errors, respecting rate limits and presenting data clearly.
Many developers learn to call an API in a tutorial, then get stuck when facing real documentation, pagination, rate limits and unexpected data. Portfolios also tend to show to-do apps that demonstrate none of that.
A GitHub profile already shows a lot, but not always the summary a reader wants, such as which languages someone has used recently or which projects they actually look after.
A single-page app with a search box for a username. It calls the public GitHub REST API, collects the user’s public repositories and recent public events, and shows a profile header, a languages chart computed from the repositories, the most starred repositories, the recently updated ones and an activity timeline.
Handle the real-world details: show loading states, handle users that don’t exist, explain when the API’s rate limit is reached, and keep responses for a few minutes so repeat visits don’t use the limit up.
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