My software internship & part-time job. The goal: Extend the low-code platform, and build a survey application for the municipality of Eindhoven.

Appsemble is an open source low-code app building software that allows people to easily build apps without much technical knowledge. The software already has a solid foundation, so they open a lot of projects with different municipalities to build new features ontop of that foundation.

My internship project was to create a new application for the municipality of Eindhoven that allowed them to gague employee satisfaction through surveys. While working on the app I would find problems or missing features in the software. I'd then extend the software itself with real code so that I could build the app further. This position was full-stack, so I worked both on the backend and frontend.

After the internship I was offered a part-time position to stay as a full-stack developer. In this time I worked on various different tasks ranging from documentation work to a full training system. I mostly focused on UX-related problems and improvements and bug fixes. It's impossible to list everything here, so I only put in some outliers.

My contributions:

• Low-code Appsemble programming

• Full-stack development

• System design

• Finding and fixing bugs

• UX improvements

My work

What did I learn?

• Nodejs

• Javascript

• React

• Playwright / end-to-end testing

• Advanced git usage

• Writing effective documentation

• Recognizing not-great UX parts & fixing them / creating detailed issues for them

• Working for a real client & managing their expectations

• Recognizing my own capabilities and how long some things take

• Working with a team of various levels of expertise on various parts of the project

• Effectively communicating progress / issues while not being able to attend meetings

Links:

• https://appsemble.com/

• https://gitlab.com/appsemble

Internship project ranged from September 2022 -> January 2023
Part-time job ranged from January 2023 -> NOW