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Code Reactions by adadot - Emoji reactions for any Git repo

Kevin William David

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1yr ago

You saw some nice piece of code? Now you can add a 👍, or maybe even a 😍 and spread the love. It seems like there might be a bug there? Give it a 🐛 with a comment on your finding and come back to fix it when you get the chance.

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Alex Harris

Adadot

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@kevin thank you for hunting us! TL;DR We created a vscode extension to add emoji reactions 🚀🐛😍, even with comments, to any line of code of any Git repo! React and see others' reactions to any piece of code straight from your IDE, and have them follow the code through changes. 😍 Share the love with Github stars: https://github.com/AdadotTeam/vs... 🤔Any questions or feedback? Head to our Discord community: https://discord.gg/HZhuynMRsN Where did it all start 🦕 We are part of a team building an analytics tool. In January we decided to do what we called "replatforming" which was almost a complete architectural change of the entirety of our analytics platform 😱 to handle scale. In the middle of changing hundreds of files in tens of repos, we found ourselves wanting to mark code for later deletion, refactor, etc. Cause of that, we were pilling mountains of JIRA tickets that were soon outdated. It was NOT working for us! 😔 So we quickly hacked together an internal IDE extension that allowed us to put a mark (or an emoji 😉) on the code and find them later! What we found 🤯 After using the extension internally for sometime we found that it allowed us to keep some things alongside our code, that never could be up to now 😮. So we ended up using it for various reasons, namely: -Giving and receiving feedback for your code. As developers we learn from others, and their reaction to our code either that being a 👍, 👎 or sometimes even a 🐛 or a 🚀, is invaluable to our progress. -Putting a mark or a note in the code. You are going about your task and suddenly you notice a piece of code that has that smell, or just doesn't look right, or is super cool!. Give it a 👀 or a 🚀 and write down a comment if need be! -Code quality metrics are very cool as a concept! However once used we all know that they feel a bit neither here nor there. Eg is a code bad if it has high complexity? Maybe, maybe not! I'd like to know what my collaborators thinks of the code, which parts are for a 😍 and which for a 🤔 and which repos and files are the ones that might need a look into. Building and Spreading the 💚! We thought other devs out there might want to have something like it, the same way we did so we decided to rewrite it (make the code slightly more decent) and give to the community something that's: -Open Source 💚 (spread the love!) -It works in the IDE (we don't want another! tool) -You can add emojis and comments 🚀 -You can see others emojis and comments 👀 -Follows (or leaves) the code as it changes. Meaning that it stays there for as long as the relevant line has not changed whitespace doesn't count as change - and they get removed from the line when it's changed 🔥