Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell

91 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by gjvc

26 Comments

psanchez

an hour ago

Wow. Really cool. I wasn't expecting something so polished.

JIRA speed drives me crazy sometimes, so a couple of months ago I decided to build myself a tool to do instant searches/filters on multiple projects right from the browser just to scratch my own itch.

I just wanted to see if I could have near-instant filtering. I think I got a pretty decent performance by using some JS tricks. I'm sure there might be ways to make it even faster.

Page is around 70kb (HTML+CSS+JS). Everything is manually crafted. I know the design won't win a beauty contest, but it does feel instant and works for my personal use-case. I had a lot of fun building this side-project.

There is a public URL, feel free to try it out [1]. Already mentioned in a previous comment in HN a while ago [2].

[1] https://jetboard.pausanchez.com [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44740472

For the record, it uses a proxy because of CORS. Proxy is in few lines of golang. No NPM or any other framework used to make the project. In any case, if anybody is interested in the source code to run it yourself I'm happy to make the project public. Trusting a proxy on some random's guy on internet is probably a bad idea, given all NPM shit that happened yesterday, in any case, if you want to try, feel free, but use at your own risk :P

IshKebab

39 minutes ago

This is cool. I'm not a fan of TUIs at all (poor man's GUI if you ask me) but anything beats the Jira website trash.

I will definitely be curious to see how much of Jira's abysmal performance is due to the website design (got to be a fair bit given how badly things like drag and drop perform) and how much is due to the server.

dumpsterdiver

23 minutes ago

> poor man's GUI if you ask me

Thank you, but we didn't! Btw, you said strawberry on those shakes, right?

Apreche

4 hours ago

I am absolutely going to try this.

One question. Is there any way that if I click a JIRA link somewhere, like email or Slack, that it could open in the TUI instead of in the browser? I just can’t imagine that being possible.

turtlebits

2 hours ago

Its possible- you'd have to register a new uri handler to call the TUI (it'll need to take cli args to load the link/issue), then rewrite Jira links (tampermonkey script/browser extension) to use the new uri.

theappsecguy

30 minutes ago

This is so fantastic. I want something like this for slack...

__fst__

2 hours ago

Brilliant. Really nice looking TUI. One thing I noticed is that I still find myself using the mouse to click the form fields. The keyboard navigation seems to sometimes get stuck on fields and I then can't move around anymore. Is there an easy trick for jumping between the fields?

tiomat

2 hours ago

It’s awesome! I wrote a TUI for Jira for my own use, with extra stats like average time spent on tasks and counts of issues or bugs per epic. But yours looks so nice and polished—thanks for sharing your work!

jdlyga

2 hours ago

Looks promising, but there's some limitations. It cuts off the list of assignees after a few hundred or so. JQL works though.

9dev

an hour ago

You have issues with hundreds of assignees?

ako

an hour ago

Yes, back to Oracle Forms 3.0. Fastest and best versions of Oracle Forms, as long as you know the keyboard shortcuts.

johntash

2 hours ago

Very cool, thanks! I'll give it a shot in the near future

numbers

2 hours ago

is there something like this for Asana, I hate their UI and UX. Their keyboard shortcuts are based off `Tab` key being a "modifier" which makes absolutely no sense.

dbacar

3 hours ago

Looks cool and unnecessary :)

Biganon

2 hours ago

Looks absolutely necessary given how terrible Jira's UX is

giancarlostoro

4 hours ago

I still dont understand why there is no unified UI for a lof of ticketing systems, I'm so tired of popping into different teams and its a night and day difference between how things are configured.Just give me a kanban board.