you need to relax a little developers

open devs — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:52:57 +0000

hello friends, you know what is the best thing about vs-code? you can configure it the way you want & develop something to expand upon it. well in that context, today we at opendevs are introducing a new product: relax a little. as the name suggests, this free extension tells you to relax in a way that you want.

relax a little marketplace listing

Wait, What do you mean in a way you want 🤔?

well like a good but strict friend it can remind you to take a break from all the coding you're doing & tell you to drink a little water or tell you to stop typing for a while, or straight up make the coding so uncolored that you have to take a break... but it asks you every detail about it first.

How can I use it 📜?

just configure it using the various ways available to make it more stubborn than you are so, it'll take care of the rest.

What exactly can I configure ⚙?

whatever you want:

at what time you want to take a break

how long break duration should be

how long should it take color to fade out completely

at what rate colors will change?

color change frames setting

if you forget to drink sufficient water (like us), then at what duration it should tell you for a little water break:

minutes till water break setting

finally, our motivation behind it is to not put 1000 blocking notifications on your screen as we know how much some of you hate annoying popups, we did our homework:

also, each feature can individually be turned off, so if you are good at your water amount or you're saving water for the environment you can tell the extension so:

Full Demo

What's the story or motivation behind this❓

well on a fine lockdown Sunday we were working on some freelancing work, we were at it for a few hours at that point in time not realizing how much time has passed, one of us remembers sitting at our laptop after morning break and when he looked out of the window next, people were taking their dogs out for evening stroll 🤦‍♂️🤦‍. we knew we had to do something about it & we definitely show some of our friends having the same issue. we added this extension to our roadmap.

I can simply ignore these notifications, no use to me 😑

if you want you can contact us & we might give you a call from time to time (on skype or other free platforms of course) but that's all we can do right? after all self-control is the key thing to learn while being a developer.

Can I contribute to make it better 😎 ?

of course, you can. we will love it for you to come up with ideas to improve fellow developers' health without being disruptive to their work & then implement those great ideas with us or fix some critical issues.

Are there some ideas you have in mind that I can develop as of now 🤩?

we do want to have a theme changer feature in it in near future to change the theme based on the time of the day, we also want to include some random quotes in breaks to make it fun to look at, of course, all of these features should be individually turn off-able.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/opendevs

so save on all those medicine 💊 costs & give this project an ⭐ at github & visual studio marketplace or buy us a coffee?

fastify typeScript generator: a generator for creating fastify server with typescript

open devs — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 06:54:48 +0000

hi everyone, 👋
today we’ll learn to use a great generator tool to create a fastify server in everyone’s favourite typescript language. 👨‍💻

now the first question first, what is fastify?

if you are coming from Node.js background you must have heard of expressjs, it is a web application framework that provides you with a simple API to build websites, web apps and back ends. Now express can be considered as a bit slower. fastify is detailed as a “fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js”. fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. it is inspired by express and hapi, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. using fastify can increase your throughput by up to 100%.

advantages of using fastify?

100% asynchronous: all the core is implemented with asynchronous code, in this way not even a millisecond is wasted.
highly performant: as far as we know, fastify is one of the fastest web frameworks in town, depending on the code complexity we can serve up to 20000 requests per second.
extendible: fastify is fully extensible via its hooks, plugins, and decorators.

why do we need a generator?

to scaffold applications quicker we need a generator to provide us with a basic useful template on which we can expand based on our requirements.

& so comes fastify-typescript-generator

we created this generator keeping few things in mind:

using typescript in our templates for better coding standards & attain all the other benefits of typescript.
providing a template for people familiar with express
providing a template for people wanting to familiarize themselves with the concept of fastify and it’s the plugin system.
providing templates with the option to choose between mongoose (a well known MongoDB driver in node.js world supporting schema) & TypeORM which is an ORM that can be used to connect to various SQL as well as MongoDB database (MongoDB connection in BETA) & work with them built specifically keeping typescript in mind.
some templates have OpenAPI (previously Swagger) implementation
a cool interactive CLI

so please check it out. it’s already gaining tracking in the community.

npm

https://www.npmjs.com/package/fastify-typescript-generator

how to use it?

or in textual form:

install

npm i -g fastify-typescript-generator

usage

run anyone of following commands:

fastify-gen
# or
fastify-typescript-generator
# or
fastify-ts-gen

who are we?

we are open devs an organization of two motivated developers (@alok722, @mikr13) building open source tools & software to contribute to the community. we are very welcoming towards collaboration & new people joining us in any capacity with a vision to profit community in terms of great tools and education.
you can join us in various places:
npm
github
twitter
website

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