Custom Taiga frontend we built for our team

[Tuna]

hey everyone,

wanted to share a project our team has been working on and actively using ourselves: Chiku.

it’s a Linear-inspired frontend for Taiga, built with SvelteKit. it’s a drop-in replacement for the default Taiga frontend - works with any existing Taiga backend, no changes needed on the backend side.

repo: GitHub - Cooperation-org/chiku · GitHub (MIT licensed)

why custom frontend?

we wanted something faster and closer to the linear-style workflow our team is used to, while still talking to Taiga underneath. And we use the task points for equity drops at [workers.vc](https://workers.vc).

some implemented features that we think are useful/interesting

• multiple auth options: SSO via LinkedTrust(OIDC), direct Google OAuth, Bludesky and standard Taiga password login
• dark mode
• per-role point estimation, condensed to a single number on the card
• project-scoped URLs (/p/<project-slug>/board/, /backlog, /epics, /velocity)

the comprehensive overview is available on our repo README.

given Tenzu grew out of the same Taiga lineage, we thought some of these UX decisions might be useful input for Tenzu’s roadmap too - even if a direct port isn’t possible since the two are separate products now.

[jrymer]

Hi @Tuna!

Welcome and thanks for sharing, we will definitely check it out. We still play with Taiga a lot as inspiration while we develop our new features so we’re eager to see your take on it.

Funny story: Our team actually first worked on writing a new modern frontend for Taiga, a drop-in replacement just like you did, before we had the chance to adopt Taiga Next, now Tenzu. Funny how things turn out

[Tuna]

thanks for the kind welcome! that’s a fun bit of history, nice to know we ended up on a similar path independently. good luck with Tenzu and let me know if anything in Chiku ends up being useful as reference