The latest articles on DEV Community by Nikolaos Kamarinakis (@k4m4). https://dev.to/k4m4 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F5351%2FMAZVcwhm.jpg https://dev.to/k4m4 en Nikolaos Kamarinakis Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:31:04 +0000 https://dev.to/meeshkan/weekly-metrics-for-your-github-repos-with-vanity-3jf7 https://dev.to/meeshkan/weekly-metrics-for-your-github-repos-with-vanity-3jf7 <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--T0Cx0wk9--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://nikolaskama.me/content/images/2020/04/vanity_logo.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--T0Cx0wk9--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://nikolaskama.me/content/images/2020/04/vanity_logo.png" alt="VANITY logo"></a></p> <p>After searching for a way to gather weekly analytics on GitHub repositories and coming empty handed, we decided to build our own solution. So, we developed <a href="https://vanity.dev">VANITY</a>.</p> <p>VANITY sends you a weekly email with a list of your repositories. Each repo is captioned with its latest metrics and a comparison to the previous week's performance.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--yzmN1CRv--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://nikolaskama.me/content/images/2020/04/vanity_sample_email.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--yzmN1CRv--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://nikolaskama.me/content/images/2020/04/vanity_sample_email.png" alt="Example of VANITY's weekly emails" title="Example of VANITY's weekly emails" width="300px"></a></p> <h2> How it works </h2> <p>The entire project is open source and you can check out the <a href="https://github.com/meeshkan/vanity">source code on VANITY's GitHub repo</a>.</p> <p>It is powered by the following dependencies and technologies (in no particular order):</p> <ul> <li>Queue management by <a href="https://optimalbits.github.io/bull/">Bull</a> </li> <li>Job persistence with <a href="https://www.heroku.com/redis">Heroku Redis</a> </li> <li>Emails sent with <a href="https://sendgrid.com/">SendGrid</a> </li> <li>Email templates using <a href="https://ejs.co/">EJS</a> </li> <li>Database models using <a href="https://sequelize.org/">Sequelize ORM</a> </li> <li>Database tables stored in <a href="https://www.heroku.com/postgres">Heroku Postgres</a> </li> <li>Hosting on <a href="https://zeit.co/">ZEIT Now</a> </li> <li>Web application built with <a href="https://nextjs.org/">Next.js</a> </li> <li>CSS design with <a href="https://tachyons.io/">Tachyons</a> </li> <li>Error management with <a href="https://sentry.io/">Sentry</a> </li> </ul> <h2> Roadmap </h2> <p>There's a lot more that we want to add to VANITY. Here are a few of our ideas:</p> <ul> <li>Support for organization repositories </li> <li>More metrics (such as number of <em>opened/closed issues</em>, <em>opened/closed pull requests</em>, and <em>commits</em>)</li> <li>Daily emails</li> </ul> <p>You can keep track of the things we're working on at the <a href="https://github.com/meeshkan/vanity/issues">VANITY GitHub repository</a>.</p> <h2> What do you think? </h2> <p>We'd love to hear what you think about VANITY, ideas for improvement, and features you want to see! Please, don't hesitate to <a href="https://github.com/meeshkan/vanity/issues">open an issue</a> or <a href="//mailto:nikolaos@meeshkan.com">reach out via email</a>.</p> showdev opensource github