Nightlight

Shed light on the dark corners of your app

Nightlight is an admin tool that helps teams keep a fresh eye on all parts of their app, especially those parts that are commonly overlooked (until it becomes a problem).

Demo available here

Inspired by Cap Watkins' The Dark Corners of Your UI

• Maintain a list of parts/pages/UI in your app ("pages" for simplicity). Easily sync with GET routes in your config/routes.rb, or manage the list manually as you need.
• Indicate when you've checked/tested a page, with an optional status update (all good? any bugs? link to Trello card?)
• See which pages haven't been checked/tested in a while (I'm looking at you, password reset page)
• Assign pages to yourself to check, and see what other team members are checking
• Click a button to get a random page that nobody else is checking

• Keep fresh eyes on pages/UI your team doesn't see very often (onboarding, edge cases)
• Discover things your automated tests aren't catching (CSS bugs, typos, bad impressions, forgot-to-update-that-too's)
• Discover things that user feedback isn't catching
• Improve product quality and internal product awareness (try: everyone on the team checks a random page every day)
• A way to share useful page/UI-level meta info across the team (useful notes, gotchyas, how-to's, please-don't's)

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nightlight'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nightlight

Run the install generator:

rails g nightlight:install
rake db:migrate

And mount the dashboard in your config/routes.rb:

mount Nightlight::Engine, at: "nightlight"

Don’t forget to protect the dashboard in production.

Set the following variables in your environment or an initializer.

ENV["NIGHTLIGHT_USERNAME"] = "ben"
ENV["NIGHTLIGHT_PASSWORD"] = "secret"

authenticate :user, lambda{|user| user.admin? } do
  mount Nightlight::Engine, at: "nightlight"
end

Inspired by:

• Cap Watkins' The Dark Corners of Your UI
• @ankane's ankane/blazer

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/bonsaiben/nightlight/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request