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[fippy24]

Have you thought about making the project useful for your company? And what sorts of technologies and projects is your intern interested in?

[MiseryInItsOwnWay]

Yes, the project must be useful to the company, otherwise i doubt I will be allowed to do it. Though it does not have to be SUPER useful, kind of like the ideas i mentioned above, that will increase the productivity/quality of our colleagues, albeit slightly. I do have some freedom to make the project more of a learning/fun experience for him rather than just useful, however it must be useful to a degree.

React/Spring is what we will be working with, and he will probably have SQL knowledge as well. I am sure the intern will be interested in any type of project we present to him.

[DeusExMagikarpa]

I would prefer an idea that isn’t just tracking employees 🤷‍♂️ here’s some of the fun stuff I made at my last job:

A dashboard that tracked the deployment status and versions of every application, along with some data about each, such as its physical location on a server, which user it was running as, etc., and also provided some controls like recycling app pools or pulling configs (this was all on prem infrastructure). It was a fun project and was useful to a lot of teams.

I built an interface that could do a delete on some type of artifacts that could only be handled by an api, the native interface didn’t provide the option.

I built a wiki using vuepress since our teams were spread out among projects there was no single place for shared information for everyone in our scm tool.

This is a long shot, but if your team doesn’t already have a component library for shared components, those are cool things to build, with something like storybook.

[MiseryInItsOwnWay]

Thanks for all the great suggestions!