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RepoLens
AI-powered GitHub repository analytics platform.
Overview
RepoLens turns any public GitHub repository into a readable story — insights, code statistics, contributor activity, commit trends, and language distribution, surfaced through interactive visualizations instead of raw API output.
Problem
GitHub's own UI shows activity in fragments — commits, insights, and contributor graphs live on separate pages with no unified narrative. Understanding a repository's health or a contributor's real impact means piecing it together manually.
Solution
A single dashboard that pulls repository data through the GitHub API, layers in AI-assisted analysis, and renders it as interactive charts — commit trends over time, language breakdowns, and contributor analytics — so the full picture is visible in one view.
Features
Repository insights dashboard with code statistics
Contributor analytics and activity breakdown
Commit trend visualization over time
Language distribution charts
AI-assisted summary of repository activity
Architecture
React + TypeScript frontend consuming a Node.js/Express API layer that proxies and caches GitHub API requests, with Tailwind CSS for styling and Framer Motion driving the chart and panel transitions.
Tech Stack
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Challenges
Working within GitHub API rate limits while keeping the dashboard feeling real-time required careful request batching and caching on the Express layer.
Lessons Learned
Designing for data that arrives in uneven shapes — some repos have rich history, others almost none — pushed a more defensive, empty-state-aware UI approach.
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