Opensource Contribution Leaderboard

A real-time leaderboard that tracks open source contributions (PRs and issues) across your GitHub organization. Built with Node.js, Express, and vanilla frontend.

What It Does

• Tracks open PRs, merged PRs, and issues per contributor across all repos in a GitHub org
• Updates automatically in the background — no manual refresh needed
• Contributors can be added before they've made their first contribution
• Built-in admin panel for managing the contributor list
• REST API for programmatic access to leaderboard data

Get It Running (5 minutes)

You need: Node.js (v12+) and a GitHub personal access token.

# 1. Clone and enter the project
git clone https://github.com/RocketChat/Opensource-Contribution-Leaderboard.git
cd Opensource-Contribution-Leaderboard

# 2. Create your config
cp src/server/config-example.json src/server/config.json
cp src/server/.env.example src/server/.env

Edit src/server/.env with your static settings:

AUTH_TOKEN=ghp_YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN
ORGANIZATION=YourOrg
ORGANIZATION_HOMEPAGE=https://yourorg.com/
ORGANIZATION_GITHUB_URL=https://github.com/YourOrg
ADMIN_PASSWORD=pick-something-better
SERVER_PORT=62050

Edit src/server/config.json with dynamic/runtime values:

{
  "delay": "10",
  "startDate": "2025-06-01",
  "contributors": ["contributor1", "contributor2"],
  "includedRepositories": ["Repo1", "Repo2"]
}

Then:

# 3. Install everything
npm run add

# 4. Build and run
NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider npm run build
cd dist/server
node app.js

Open http://localhost:8080 — you're done.

Config Reference

Static settings live in .env:

Env Variable	What it is
AUTH_TOKEN	GitHub personal access token (repo read access)
ORGANIZATION	Your GitHub org name
ORGANIZATION_HOMEPAGE	Org homepage URL
ORGANIZATION_GITHUB_URL	Org GitHub URL
ADMIN_PASSWORD	Password for the admin panel
SERVER_PORT	Internal backend port (default 62050)

Dynamic settings live in config.json (modifiable via admin panel):

Key	What it is
delay	Seconds between API calls per contributor (respect rate limits)
startDate	Filter contributions from this date onwards
contributors	Array of GitHub usernames to track
includedRepositories	Repos to include in contribution tracking

Local Development

Two terminals:

# Terminal 1 — frontend with hot reload
NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider npm start

# Terminal 2 — backend server
npm run serve

Frontend at http://localhost:8080. Backend data won't refresh without terminal 2.

To work on the admin panel, add a third terminal:

cd admin && npm start

REST API

Endpoints for programmatic access:

• GET /api/stats — total contributors, open PRs, merged PRs, issues
• GET /api/rank — ranked contributor list (sortable by mergedprs, openprs, issues)
• GET /api/contributor — contributor details by username or rank

Full documentation in REST-API.md.

How It Works Under the Hood

1. app.js starts Express on port 8080 and spawns refresh.js as a background process
2. refresh.js loops through your contributors list, calling the GitHub API for each
3. Results are written to src/assets/data/data.json — no database needed
4. The frontend and REST API both read from data.json, so they're always in sync
5. Real-time updates are pushed to connected clients via socket.io

AI Agents & Vibe Coding

This project is set up for AI-assisted development. See:

• AGENTS.md — context for any AI coding agent (Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, etc.)
• GEMINI.md — context for Google Gemini

These files give AI agents the full project layout, design decisions, and ground rules so they can help without breaking things.

License

This project is open source under the Licence MIT.