GitHub Profile Finder
Search a username, get their profile card and top repositories.
StarterWeb appTool2–5hAI-buildable 5/5needs GitHub REST API
Two chained API calls — user, then repos — rendered into a profile card. A good place to get async error handling right, since a wrong username is the common case rather than an edge case.
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Core features · 5
- Search by GitHub username
- Display avatar, bio, followers, following, and repo count
- List the user's top repositories with stars and forks
- Show a clear message when no such user exists
- Handle API rate limiting with a readable error
The interesting part
- GitHub's 60 req/hr unauthenticated rate limit during development
Once it works
- Add language breakdown from the repos
- Cache recent searches
Suggested stack
reacttypescripttailwindfuse.jstanstack-query
External APIs
- GitHub REST API · no key