Hosted web version of jira-assistant

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#201 - Hosted web version of jira-assistant

jycr commented on Jul 26, 2022

We like to host this application on our same server that currently hosts our Jira Data-center instance. Is it possible to create a "web app" version that it can be deployed on Apache HTTP server?

shridhar-tl commented on Nov 03, 2021

Hi @jycr , This app is developed using React only and so it is just a static website. But still, this doesn't have any authentication logc with Jira. Currently it uses browsers authentication by default which is supported only if it is an extension.

If this is hosted as a web site in any server, then current authentication logic won't work and needs code changes for it to be working. By the way, their are few more additional capabilities which is specific to a browser extension. Those features has to be removed / hidden.

With some code changes, it is definitely possible to host it as a website in any server. Please feel free to fork the branch and make required changes. If you have any queries, please contact me via mail for quicker response.

shridhar-tl commented on Jun 05, 2022

Closing this issue as their were no further comments. Please feel free if their are any more questions.

shridhar-tl commented on Jul 26, 2022

Hi @jycr - As part of #221, this extension is rearchitectured to be hosted as a web application as well in any server. Additionally for authentication, OAuth2 is implimented for Cloud version of Jira. As of now, when run as website it does not support authenticating with self hosted version of Jira which is your case.

So as of now all the work required for this tool to be hosted as web app is done. But few more changes would be required to integrate it with your self hosted version of jira and authenticate. If you are still looking for option to host it in your datacenter, please contact me via mail with all the required details and I will see if I can help to get it done.

I had infact already hosted it as static site in https://app.jiraassistant.com (using GitHub Pages). This is primarily for beta testing the upcomming changes by integrating with Chrome extension, but additionally have the capability to work standalone using OAuth 2 based integration with Jira Cloud.

Latest updates

27-Nov-2023 - Change in permissions for JA

In upcoming version (v2.58) of JA, by default, permission to access Cloud instance of Jira would be added. This would let the users to integrate with Cloud instance of Jira without prompting for permission at the time of integration. Hence for Chrome users, once the extension gets updated, it would get disabled due to change in permission. You can enable it again from Extensions page. However, for Firefox and Edge, extension already have access to all the sites (though it doesn't really need) which would be narrowed down only to atlassian.net which would be a security improvement.

03-Jan-2023 - Auto update would take time

Jira Assistant is now updated in phased basis to avoid any breaking changes impacting all users. So it may take long time before your extension gets updated. If you want to manually update it immediately, just navigate to "chrome://extensions", turn on "Developer mode" from top right corner and click Update button. Then you can turn off dev mode.

20-Dec-2022 - Available as App for Jira Cloud

Jira Assistant can now be installed within your Jira Cloud as an App. Once installed, this would be available for all your Jira users. Visit https://www.jiraassistant.com to know more.

26-Jul-2022 - Introducing JA Web

You can visit https://app.jiraassistant.com to use or test upcoming features of Jira Assistant. Contribute in testing JA by switching to Web Version. All the fixes and new feature updates would be immediately available in Web version of JA. Later, stable updates would be pushed to Extensions.

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