Word Cloud

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Inspiration

From typical word clouds that are fun and interesting.

What it does

This Word Cloud app represents the most commonly used words within a JIRA issue through the text size and opacity. You can also re-generate the Word Cloud which will change the positions. There is also a filter for common words such as 'the', 'and' , etc.

How we built it

Using SVG to display the words and the styles. And Forge (of course!) to get the JSON from the issue.

Challenges we ran into

Initially, we were planning to use CSS styling on components to display the words (and have the ability to stack them automatically) but was unable to find a way. Forge accepted certain parameters in the UI components so trying to tie it with style didn't work. This resulted in us using SVG to display the words.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We finished a working Forge App!

What we learned

We learnt how to use Atlassian Forge, collaboration skills, more Javascript ES6 and how SVG works.

What's next for Word Cloud

Better styling (more colours and spaced out words for clarity) and possibly animations.

Built With

• forge
• javascript