A full-stack engineering workspace for software engineers and DevOps professionals to plan, organise, and track their technical learning journey.
Tech Checklist is a personal engineering workspace designed to help aspiring software engineers and DevOps professionals organise, manage and visualise their technical learning journey.
The application provides a central place to manage technologies, projects, certifications, learning goals and future objectives while encouraging structured, intentional learning rather than scattered notes.
Beyond solving a real productivity problem, this repository also serves as a portfolio project demonstrating modern software engineering practices including domain-driven modelling, component architecture, iterative development and DevOps workflows.
Current Version: Milestone 1 Complete
- Dashboard UI
- Component-based architecture
- Technology management
- Domain-driven Technology model
- Duplicate prevention
- Responsive dashboard layout
- Docker support
- GitHub Actions CI pipeline
- Repository professionalisation
- Portfolio documentation
- Express backend
- SQLite database
- Authentication
- Search & filtering
- Technology categories
- Project management
- Certification tracking
As my software engineering and DevOps learning expanded, I found it increasingly difficult to keep track of:
- technologies I had learned
- technologies I was currently studying
- projects I had completed
- certifications
- future learning goals
Rather than relying on multiple tools and scattered notes, I wanted to build one application that manages my learning journey while serving as a real-world full-stack engineering project.
- Learning overview
- Dynamic summary cards
- Currently learning technologies
- Recent projects
- Live learning counter
- Add technologies
- Remove technologies
- Duplicate prevention
- Domain-based data model
- Technology categories
- Learning status
- Priority management
- Future roadmap planning
The main dashboard provides a quick overview of the current learning journey, including active technologies, summary cards, and recent projects.
Users can quickly add new technologies while duplicate entries are automatically prevented.
The dashboard is designed to remain clean and usable across different screen sizes.
- React
- JavaScript (ES6+)
- Vite
- CSS
- Express.js
- SQLite
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- Nginx
- GitHub Actions
React UI
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Component Layer
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Business Logic
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Domain Model
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Express API (Planned)
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SQLite Database (Planned)
The project is intentionally developed using incremental architectural evolution. Each phase focuses on improving the design while preserving existing functionality.
This project follows a set of engineering principles rather than focusing solely on implementation.
- Component-Based Architecture
- Separation of Concerns
- Single Source of Truth
- Domain-Driven Design
- Product-First Development
- Immutable State Updates
- Incremental Refactoring
- Design Before Implementation
- Small, Reversible Changes
- Behaviour-Preserving Refactoring
tech-checklist/
├── docs/
├── public/
├── src/
│ ├── components/
│ ├── constants/
│ ├── styles/
│ ├── pages/
│ ├── layouts/
│ ├── services/
│ ├── utils/
│ ├── App.jsx
│ └── main.jsx
├── Dockerfile
├── package.json
└── README.md
- Node.js 20+
- npm
- Git
git clone <repository-url>
cd tech-checklist
npm install
npm run dev- Dashboard
- Technology Management
- Domain Model
- Component Architecture
- CI Pipeline
- Categories
- Search
- Filtering
- Edit Technologies
- Express REST API
- SQLite
- Authentication
- User Accounts
This project has strengthened my practical experience with:
- React component architecture
- State management
- Domain modelling
- Software design
- Git branching strategy
- Docker
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- Engineering documentation
- Product-oriented software development
Jackson Itoro
Digital Technology & Management Student
Aspiring Software Engineer | Backend & DevOps Enthusiast
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.
Tech Checklist is more than a learning tracker—it is a continuous software engineering project used to practise professional development workflows, software architecture and full-stack engineering.