Note

Sponsored by the Open Source project Flagsmith https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith

HealthCheck

How friendly is your GitHub Open Source Repo? This project will check to make sure you are using Best Practices to attract more users, contributors and Stars, as well as suggest steps as to how you can improve the Repo to achieve this.

Features

• GitHub OAuth
• Integration with Flagsmith
• Add GitHub repo URL
• List of checks and show detailed report
• Badges to show latest status in project's README
• ...

Usage

1. Login with your GitHub (only public info required)
2. Add GitHub repo URL
3. Run HealthCheck against repo and view the report
4. Add a HealthCheck badge to your project

Quickstart guide for local development

Caution

Node v21+ is required

1. Clone this GitHub Repo

2. Install the dependencies with npm ci

3. Copy .env.example to .env (you will need an environment key from Flagsmith, this is shown later on)

4. Create a free account on Flagsmith https://www.flagsmith.com (you can also sign in with GitHub)

5. Create an Organisation and Project

6. Create the Feature Flags with these steps

   a. Create the feature tagline by clicking Create Feature

   

   b. Fill in the Feature Flag form with these details and click Create Feature

   

   c. (OPTIONAL) Import the flags to your Flagsmith account using the file src/config/flagsmith.json (note this will be per environment, for example development)

   

7. Get your environment key from Flagsmith and add to .env file

8. To be able to log in using GitHub OAuth

   a. create a GitHub OAuth app on GitHub https://docs.github.com/en/apps/oauth-apps/building-oauth-apps/creating-an-oauth-app

   

   b. In your GitHub OAuth app, GitHub will generate the client id and client secret, add these to your the .env file

9. Run the project with one of these

   a. If you have Postgres installed, you can run the app locally npm run dev OR

   b. If you don't have Postgres installed, you can use Docker Compose to run the database and the app docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml up -d, after the containers are ready, run the command npm run db:migrate:dev

   c. Running in Github Codespaces

   1. Start a new codespace
   2. Run npm ci and npm run dev
   3. When the project is running in the browser visit this and copy the generated URL. You will use this URL in place of localhost in step 8 above for creating your OAuth app
   4. Update the environment file with your client id and secret. Make sure to also update the NEXTAUTH_URL= to the generated codespace URL as well.
   5. Continue with step 9b to run the docker container and database migration.