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Developer Workstation Tools

Tools helps developer to improve productivity and simplify running application or services smoothly, conveniently.

Useful simple Git configuration

  • When you work with two or more different Git accounts and want to have different configuration for each account, you can use conditional git configuration. For example, in my case I want to have my organisation account configurations like company email address for internal organisation repositories and my personal email address for Open Source repositories.

    # create dedciated git config for personal account in user home directory and define config.
# in my case i want to use short name and personal email address for open source projects
cat .gitconfig-github 
[user]
  name = Ram
  email = ramachandrannellai@gmail.com

# configure the config in main .gitconfig conditionally
cat .gitconfig
# my organisation based config
[user]
  name = Ramachandran Nellaiyappan
  email = ramachandran.nellaiyappan@mycompany.com

[includeIf "gitdir:~/Ram/github/"]
  path = .gitconfig-github

  • my favorite one line log format, it might help you as well

  git config --global alias.onelog 'log --graph --decorate --pretty="%C(white) Hash: %h %C(red)Date: %ad %C(yellow) %C(blue) Author: %an %C(green)Message: %s " --date=human'
  • one of my most frequently used git command
  git config --global alias.undo 'reset --soft HEAD~1'

Clean as You Code

  • SonarLint Plugin for IDE: Detect bugs and code smells as early as possible while you code

EnvFile: Manage Environment Variables

  • EnvFile allows you to set environment variables for your run configurations from one or multiple files
  • It supports YAML, JSON and .env formats

mkcert: Local Trust store for Local Development

  • mkcert A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
  • Using certificates from real certificate authorities(CAs) for development can be dangerous or impossible (for hosts like example.test, localhost or 127.0.0.1), but self-signed certificates cause trust errors.
  • Managing your own CA is the best solution, but usually involves arcane commands, specialized knowledge and manual steps.
  • mkcert automatically creates and installs a local CA in the system root store, and generates locally-trusted certificates.
  • mkcert does not automatically configure servers to use the certificates, though, that's up to you.

Design and Document your feature

  • PlantUML IDE plugin helps us to write varies diagrams by writing code for documenting your feature