🤖 GitHub Copilot Exercises

This repository is a hands-on playground for GitHub Copilot exercises.

The exercises live in the EXERCISES directory:

• APM Exercises
• Hooks Exercise
• Plan Agent Exercises
• Ralph Loop Exercise
• Spec-Driven Development Exercises

The exercises are performed against the small full-stack Gantt chart application included in this repo. The app is intentionally simple so you can focus on practicing Copilot workflows rather than learning a complex codebase.

No prior knowledge of TypeScript or Node.js is required for the exercises.

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📊 The Gantt Chart App

A full-stack Gantt chart app for planning and tracking tasks across time, used as the playground for the exercises above.

🛠️ Technology stack

• 🎨 Frontend: React + TypeScript + Vite
• ⚙️ Backend: Express + TypeScript
• 💾 Storage: JSON file via lowdb (single-file DB)

✅ Requirements

• Node.js 20+

🚀 Getting started

npm install
npm run dev

Then open http://localhost:5173.

The Vite dev server proxies /api requests to the backend at http://localhost:3000.

📁 Project layout

backend/   Express + lowdb REST API
frontend/  Vite + React UI

📜 Scripts

• npm run dev — runs backend and frontend concurrently
• npm run build — builds both packages
• npm run start — starts the built backend (serves the API only)

🧪 Tests

Backend unit tests use Vitest:

npm test -w backend           # run once
npm run test:watch -w backend # watch mode

🗑️ Resetting the data

The database lives at backend/data/gantt.json. Delete that file to start fresh; the backend will recreate it with a default chart on the next start.