When I started back in March at MongoDB I wanted an easy way to create a list of what I was working on.
There are two main pages I need to check on a daily basis:
These two lists show me the main "docket" for the day, and the tickets I need to shepherd.
What I found was that I had to often make lists of these things I'm working on. Between GitHub and Jira things can be a little scattered, there's the reviews I'm doing, reviews I need to request from my fellow colleagues, draft pull requests, and tickets that are assigned to me that don't yet have a PR associated.
These lists ideally would both have a reference to GitHub and Jira. I wanted a way to copy all the links and put them in one place.
What I quickly thought of was creating a simple bookmarklet that would select all the tickets from the DOM.
View the source at this gist: reggi/github-link-bookmarklet.js
Because the links are in markdown it isn't super easy to paste into Slack or a Google doc. What I normally do is render the markdown and then copy the outputted list into slack, which is an unfortunate extra step.
I've been using a chrome extension Bookmarkletifier to make incremental changes and maintain the script, it's not great and can create malformed JavaScript, which doesn't matter in the editor because it all gets minified. I haven't found a better workflow for maintain or writing bookmarklets, I'm curious if anyone has any advice out there.
The script has a useful feature where it can parse the Jira ticket from the pull request and adding a specific link to the ticket. There are some hardcoded things in the script that appeal to my use case, but feel free to rewire it to suit your needs. ๐ค๐
There you have it! Problem solved, everything is a little easier to manage. I hope this inspires other developers not to be afraid to spend a little extra time to write a script that will help them in the long run. Happy coding. ๐
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