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  Weather Dashboard

☁️ AmarWeather – Live Weather in Jira

🌤️ 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

AmarWeather 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 AmarWeather

• 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

AmarWeather brings the sky to your sprint.

Built With

• forge
• javascript
• react