RepoFinder React
A focused GitHub repository search tool — built to work through state separation, API rate limits, and client-side deployment constraints.
- Role
- Frontend engineer
- Stack
- React, TypeScript, GitHub API, Vite, Static hosting
- Domains
- Frontend architecture, Search and filtering, API boundaries
Context
RepoFinder is a single-purpose tool: find repositories, inspect metadata, move fast. The scope is narrow by design.
The interesting part was not the interface. It was where the lines were drawn — between fetching, state, filtering, and display.
Architecture Notes
- Fetching logic stays separate from display components.
- Filtering is modeled as explicit UI state instead of incidental string handling.
- Repository cards expose only the metadata needed for comparison.
- Deployment remains static, with API calls made from the client.
Tradeoffs
The GitHub API creates rate-limit and availability constraints that the interface has to acknowledge. The implementation keeps the product small enough that those constraints are visible rather than hidden behind unnecessary infrastructure.
Outcome
RepoFinder is small by design. The narrow scope makes the decisions visible — how state is managed, where API concerns end and display begins, and how rate limits shape the user-facing behavior.