How We Scaled a Small Team with GitHub, ZenHub, TravisCI, and Slack
From a tiny squad using SVN to a full‑stack agile team, we detail how migrating to GitHub, adopting ZenHub for project management, integrating TravisCI for continuous testing and deployment, using Reviewable for pull‑request reviews, Coveralls for coverage metrics, and Slack for real‑time communication transformed our development workflow and boosted code quality.
1. Version Control – GitHub
We started with SVN, then migrated to Git on Coding, adopted git‑flow, and finally moved to GitHub after securing budget, enabling better code review and CI integration.
2. Arm GitHub – ZenHub
ZenHub is an integrated project‑management extension for GitHub that provides task boards, personal todo lists, project metrics, and various UI enhancements.
3. Continuous Integration – TravisCI
TravisCI runs automated unit tests on every commit and pull request, blocks merges on failures, and can also handle automatic deployments; CircleCI is a free alternative for private repositories.
4. Code Review – Reviewable
Reviewable enhances GitHub’s pull‑request review with dedicated buttons and warnings until reviews are completed.
5. Code Coverage – Coveralls
Coveralls shows test‑coverage badges for projects like Express, helping assess confidence in code quality.
6. Fast Communication – Slack
Slack channels organize team discussions and integrate with GitHub to push commit and PR notifications, keeping the team informed.
7. Conclusion
Our team continuously adopts new tools to improve agility, quality, and collaboration.
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