Generate Beautiful Changelogs for Github!

PandaDEV — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:15:53 +0000

As a developer, I built a simple tool that transforms GitHub commits into beautiful changelogs instantly. Let me show you why I love it.

What's This Tool?

It's a straightforward changelog generator that works with any GitHub repository. Just paste your repo URL and get perfectly formatted changelogs in seconds. You can choose between specific tags to compare, or simply leave it empty to get changes from the latest tag to the main branch.

Why Is it so good

Here's what makes it amazing:

Smart commit sorting: Automatically organizes by conventional commit types (feat, fix, etc.)
Detailed attribution: Shows commit author and links directly to commit hash
Clean formatting: Generates well-structured markdown output
Complete history: Captures full commit history in an organized way
Flexible comparison: Compare any two tags or get latest changes to main

Cool Features

The tool comes packed with useful features:

Beautiful emoji support
Smart commit filtering
Professional formatting
Modern, sleek interface
No account needed
Completely free and open source
Tag-to-tag comparison
Latest changes view
Works completely client-side

Getting Started

Want to try it out? You can access it right here:

Join The Community

As this tool grows and evolves, I'd love your input! Whether you're an open source maintainer, part of a dev team, or a solo developer:

Give it a ⭐ if you find it useful
Share your feedback
Suggest new features
Help make it even better

Let's make changelog generation fun again! Feel free to reach out with your thoughts or feature requests.

Supabase Alternative: Self-hosted

PandaDEV — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:09:14 +0000

Not just another database

Appwrite is one of the best ways to self-host a database, with the whole suite of tools and an SDK for every language.

Appwrite has one of the cleanest UIs you can think of, very similar to Supabase.

Why use it over cloud based databases

I think by self-hosting, you can have full control over your data. Also, the single and most important thing, it's completely free, and you don't have to pay a subscription to host it. The only trade-off is that you need a server, but even then it does not have to be a big one because Appwrite is so lightweight.

How to install on Ubuntu Server

To install Appwrite you need docker installed.

# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

After this you have two options, either a normal docker container or manually with docker compose

Docker container

docker run -it --rm \
    --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    --volume "$(pwd)"/appwrite:/usr/src/code/appwrite:rw \
    --entrypoint="install" \
    appwrite/appwrite:1.5.5

Docker compose

# create a new directory for storing the docker compose file
mkdir appwrite

# download the tow files docker-compose.yml and .env
curl -O https://appwrite.io/install/env
curl -O https://appwrite.io/install/compose

# finally start appwrite
docker compose up -d --remove-orphans

# to restart use
docker compose stop
docker compose up -d --remove-orphans

Conclusion

It's very useful if you make small side projects that need auth and a database in one and don't want to use old school SQL with MySQL. Now it's up to you what you do with it.

https://appwrite.io/docs

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