Project Manager Desktop App

Tech Stack

• Rust Backend
• PyQt5 Frontend

Idea

• I had my all projects in different directories due to which I had difficulty locating them.
• So I thought I needed to make a app that gathers all my project directories and shows them in one place.

Functionalities

• Made a Overlay GUI that displays all my projects in one place.
• Added what project used what language as an icon beside the directory.
• Allows to filter on basis on langauge used.
• Allows to search for a particular directory/project based on name.
• Clicking on the name opens the particular project folder.

Execution

• I wrote all the backend needed in Rust and made a Python module using PyO3.
• Used Qt5 designer I designed GUI of the application. Imported the ui file and created the frontend functionality.
• Wrote algorithm that surfs through all the file folders and finds all the related projects.
• Another recursive algorithm explores a particular project folder and returns top language used in the project(also has functionality to skip over certain files/folders that should not be explored).