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Rajshahi Weather
🌤️ Inspiration
As developers working in Jira all day, we often forget to look outside. Inspired by this simple idea, I wanted to bring a touch of the outside world into our workspaces. What better way than real-time weather updates right on your Jira dashboard?
🛠️ What It Does
Rajshahi Weather is a lightweight, embeddable Forge-powered dashboard gadget for Jira that fetches real-time weather data using the OpenWeatherMap API. Just configure your city and country once — the gadget takes care of the rest.
Features:
Current temperature, conditions, and location
Supports Celsius and Fahrenheit
Minimalist UI to match Jira’s native design
Per-user configuration for personalized forecasts
🧠 How We Built It
Built with Atlassian Forge, using:
@forge/ui and @forge/ui-kit for the UI
@forge/bridge to handle API calls
Weather data is fetched from the OpenWeatherMap public API
Stored user configuration using Forge gadget context
UI designed for simplicity and clarity with minimal permissions
⚔️ Challenges We Ran Into
Debugging deployment issues caused by Forge version mismatches
Learning the trade-offs between UI Kit and Custom UI
Handling edge cases like missing or malformed user configurations
Rate-limiting from the OpenWeatherMap free API tier
🏆 Accomplishments That We're Proud Of
Delivered a fully functional Forge app with zero external backend
Kept the experience native and non-intrusive inside Jira
Personalized weather data for each user with persistent config
Learned to work within Forge’s security and permission constraints
📚 What We Learned
How to build full-stack apps on Atlassian Forge
Best practices for fetching third-party API data securely
Designing user-friendly Jira gadgets using UI Kit
Efficiently handling configuration persistence across users
🔮 What's Next for Rajshahi Weather
Add 5-day and hourly forecast view options
Support for multiple saved locations
Integrate geolocation detection (with user permission)
Build a Confluence version of the gadget
Dark mode and compact widget layout for dashboards
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