mattermost-mobile VS Kanboard

Mattermost, Inc. | Senior React Native Engineer | REMOTE (US Only) | Full-Time

At Mattermost we build an open core, chat and collaboration platform focused on making users with mission critical work more productive while also allowing our customers to self-deploy and have full control over their own data.

We’re looking for a Senior React Native Engineer who has the depth to significantly move the performance needle of our app while also having the breadth to contribute across our stack.

Check out our open source mobile codebase: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile. Meta uses the Mattermost RN app as the benchmark for performance testing of their Hermes JS engine: https://mattermost.com/blog/hermes-mattermost/. Want to set the bar for what a complex, high performing React Native app can do? Want to do it open source? Join our team!

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/mattermost/a38ea8f0-6c27-4178-a988-801...

I've got as far as downloading the mattermost apps: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile/releases/tag/v2.3.0 and have been using fastlane/match but i haven't been able to build it or run it in xcode.

Mattermost has a few products/versions, i used the selfhosted enterprise version because its also MIT licensed, so free of charge and also very well documented. It may not well suited for business projects, features are build for technical teams/projects. - Features: https://mattermost.com/pricing - Deployment Options: https://mattermost.com/download/#server - Mobile Apps for both worlds: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile An other very special app, focused on productmanagement, https://www.documize.com . Never had a scope for to use it in productive, but may match!? :)

Mattermost Beta (version 1.55.1): Secure, self-hosted workplace messaging

This was the first commit on a clean, orphaned branch on our mattermost-mobile repo. This commit kicked off the work on mobile v2. At that time — some of you may not have been born yet (or not yet born into Mattermost — which would include yours truly) — it had become clear a bit of a reset was required. Mobile v1 had grown organically, as many products have, out of a proof-of-concept. Some fundamental design decisions (like only supporting a single server, or how state management works) were foundational limitations and effectively impossible to fix iteratively. A more hard cut had to be made. Not a full rewrite per se, but close. This work kicked off inside of the mobile team, but after about a year also started to include a whole slew of engineers across the organization, as well as product and UX.

On the mobile platform end, as we’re getting closer to the mobile v2 GA we’re trying to pull our weight to shipping this thing on time. Hardcore style. We’ve now added support for announcement banners (allowing us to broadcast our new levels of extreme hardcoreness), and we will soon allow you to share how extremely hardcore fans you are of v2, with an in-app review dialog. We have also integrated Sentry, so we will have more insight into how the app is performing and when it crashes, hardcore. And last but not least, the work on a nice piece of share sheet is heading toward Android (previously only implemented on iOS).

Notes from the latest multi-product architecture sync-up. On the mobile platform end, an early look at how we’re trying to measure performance and performance regressions in the future (video). We’re closer to integrating Sentry. Search just got merged and should go out with the next (internal) beta (which should release today) — the platform team is covering this functionality with end-to-end tests.

On the mobile platform end, we’re going to try something new: a weekly mobile hangout (in the public ~Developers: Mobile channel of course, using Calls) on Mondays. The goal is to have a casual “drop in and out as you like” type of environment. Some of our mobile engineers will be there, if you like to talk about mobile development, are stuck somewhere, or would like to share your love of dynamic islands — this will be the opportunity. We’re also pushing three initiatives forward: automated performance testing (channel: ~Client Performance Automation) in collaboration with the web platform team, Sentry Integration and the “single command” installer for development environments. On the latter topic, we polled people last week. We’ll create a prototype of the “single binary” (written in Go) option.

Mattermost Beta: Open source platform for developer collaboration

Linux Mint with Cinnamon: https://www.linuxmint.com/ as far as desktop OSes go it's familiar (Ubuntu without snaps by default), whereas the UI feels both snappy, doesn't use too much resources and is actually pretty to look at.

MobaXTerm: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ this one is a bit more Windows centric but I ended up paying for it and replaced mRemoteNg and PuTTY with it, it's even better than Remmina or whatever Linux has to offer - you can manage SSH/RDP/VNC/... sessions, input across multiple sessions side by side and it just simplifies things a lot (jump host support, a port forwarding too and so much more).

GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/ also a piece of software that I paid for, this one actually makes using Git pleasant, feels better to use than SourceTree and Git Cola (even though that latter is wonderfully lightweight, too) and honestly I prefer that to the CLI nowadays.

Kanboard: https://kanboard.org/ is a lightweight Kanban project management tool, it might not have every feature under the sun but it's the most snappy project management tool I've ever used, looks simple and runs well. I honestly love it, what a nice thing to have.

Most modern text editors and IDEs: I personally pay for JetBrains IDEs but also like Visual Studio Code as a text editor and both have helped me immensely, they're reasonably performant when you have the RAM, look nice, often give you suggestions about how to improve your code and also have a plethora of plugins in their ecosystems. Nowadays I unapologetically use LLMs as well and overall it feels like I have these great tools and cool autocomplete (that is sometimes a bit silly and wrong) at my disposal, that makes me happy.

Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org/ imagine if there was a successor to Windows Movie Maker, though something that gets most of the important stuff out of Sony Vegas, except is also completely free and works on most platforms. Kdenlive is all of that and also somehow quite pleasant to use, I actually prefer it to DaVinci resolve. There is a bit of a learning curve to any piece of software like this, but everything mostly makes sense in this one.

Gitea: https://about.gitea.com/ I still use this for my personal Git repositories and integrating with CI systems and it's lightweight, looks good and just feels pleasant to use. Previously I self-hosted GitLab and constantly ran into resource exhaustion as well as doubts about the next update is going to corrupt all of my data and break (it did), so now I use Gitea instead.

Drone CI: https://www.drone.io/ a container native CI solution that I can also self host. It's container oriented, integrates with Gitea nicely, is similarly nice to GitLab CI and doesn't cause me headaches like Jenkins would.

Docker: https://www.docker.com/ yes, even Docker desktop. It just makes working with containers really pleasant and predictable, even when something like Podman also exists (and also is great). I don't know, I feel like Docker really saved me from having brittle legacy environments, even self-contained containers with health checks and resource limits with still the same brittle code inside of those make me feel way more safe.

For someone that's not a web developer, I found Kanboard to be the easiest to set up, and it has all the basic features you'd expect. It's a traditional PHP app where you copy the files to your web server and set a few configuration options and you're good. If you want to use it locally, you download it, run php -S localhost:8080, and start using it.

https://kanboard.org/

Note: The project is in maintenance mode, it hasn't shut down or been abandoned.

I kicked off 2024 with an attempt to get more organized and continue my quest to rely less on big tech. To start things off, I’m trying out an open-source taskboard called Kanboard. It’s like Trello but without all the integrations or surprises. I’ve been using it for personal tasks and side projects. I like these boards for dumping out the things I want to do and then visually sorting them into their status and priority. Doing the things is still hard, but at least I know what I’ve got on my plate.

https://kanboard.org has a kanban board.

For the Kanban experience, I was using Kanboard. It is perfect for Project management and it allows for relations between the cards as well. It is also solid in terms of stability. It is also very lightweight and can easily run on Raspberry Pi. The only downside is that the UI feels a little outdated and it is not Mobile friendly.

Kanboard is a possible solution if you want something self-hosted and open-source - https://kanboard.org/

Checkout kanboard. It's free and open source.

Contrast with https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/blob/main/app/Schema/Postgres.php - a very similar set up with projects, tasks and columns.