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 ādocketā for the day, and the tickets I need to shepherd.
What I found was that I had to often make lists of these things Iām working on. Between GitHub and Jira things can be a little scattered, thereās the reviews Iām doing, reviews I need to request from my fellow colleagues, draft pull requests, and tickets that are assigned to me that donāt 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 isnāt 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.
Iāve been using a chrome extension Bookmarkletifier to make incremental changes and maintain the script, itās not great and can create malformed JavaScript, which doesnāt matter in the editor because it all gets minified. I havenāt found a better workflow for maintain or writing bookmarklets, Iām 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. š¤š
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. š