Tasker

Tasker is a sample web application, developed by Tiago Romero Garcia to illustrate some articles he wrote for Java Magazine in Brazil about using Backbone.js and Handlebars.js on the client-side and Play! over Java on the server-side.

This application simulates a very simple Kanban board based on Agile methodologies. Basically, the board can have multiple projects, each project can have multiple stories and each story can have multiple issues, which can be either task, bug or enhancement.

The user can create and remove projects, stories and issues, and also move issues around 4 lanes representing its possible status: Backlog, In Progress, Verify and Signed Off.

Purpose

The main purpose of Tasker is to demonstrate important front-end concepts of nowadays about smart client-side applications, such as:

Client-side

• MV* on the client-side with Backbone.js
  • REST-based models
  • views
  • routers
  • events
  • validation
• Templating with Handlebars.js
  • Custom helpers
• Using Bootstrap components
• Using Font Awesome fonts
• Writing LESS css
• Building the front-end with Grunt
  • Concatenating files
  • JSHint
• Unit testing with Jasmine
  • Mocking with Sinon.JS
• Code coverage
• UI-level i18n
• Responsive/adaptive layout

Server-side

• Play! Framework as a modern, simple yet powerful back-end
  • models
  • views
  • controllers
  • REST-based routers
  • Google Clojure compilation and minification
• Ebean as a simple ORM approach
  • JPA-based mapping
  • simple query language
  • evolutions
• JSON manipulation with Flexjson
• Unit testing with TestNG
• Code coverage
• Setting production profile
• Deploying to Heroku

Setup

• Install JDK 7 and make sure it is available from command-line
• Install Play! Framework and make sure it is available from command-line
• Checkout this project
• Enter Play! console by typing: play

Tasks on Play! console

• Compile: compile
• Test: test
• Run: run

License

Tasker from Tiago Romero Garcia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at http://github.com/tiagorg/tasker. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://tgarcia.com.br/contato.