Code Pulse - Developer Productivity Dashboard (DPD) VS Code Extension

🎯 Project Vision

Code Pulse is a TypeScript-based VS Code extension that provides comprehensive coding metrics, visualizations, and insights to help developers understand their coding patterns, complexity, and productivity.

📊 Features

• Multi-language code complexity analysis
• Persistent metrics tracking
• Interactive dashboard with charts
• Configurable tracking options
• Exportable metrics
• Performance-conscious design

📦 Project Structure

code-pulse/
│
├── src/
│   ├── extension.ts                # Main extension entry point
│   ├── metrics/
│   │   ├── complexity-alerts.ts    # Complexity Alerts
│   │   ├── complexity.ts           # Complexity Metrics logic
│   │   ├── debounce-tracker.ts     # Debounce tracker system
│   │   ├── storage.ts              # Persistent storage management
│   │   └── tracker.ts              # Core metrics logic
│   │
│   ├── test/
│   │   └── extension.test.ts       # Extension test logic
│   │
│   ├── utils/
│   │   ├── advanced-config.ts      # Multi-language support
│   │   ├── cache.ts                # Caching system
│   │   ├── config-export.ts        # Export metrics
│   │   ├── config.ts               # Extension configuration management
│   │   └── error-handler.ts        # Error handler system
│   │
│   └── views/
│       ├── dashboard.ts            # Webview dashboard logic
│       └── charts.ts               # Chart rendering logic
│   
│
├── package.json                    # Extension manifest
├── tsconfig.json                   # TypeScript configuration
├── esbuild.js                      # Build configuration
├── .vscodeignore                   # VS Code extension ignore file
│
├── resources/
│   ├── icons/                      # Extension icons
│   └── templates/                  # Dashboard HTML templates (soon)
│
└── dist/                           # Compiled extension

🧩 Modules and Their Responsibilities

Complexity Analysis (complexity.ts)

• Performs deep code complexity analysis
• Calculates multiple complexity metrics:
  • Cyclomatic Complexity
  • Maintainability Index
  • Halstead Complexity Measures
• Generates actionable code improvement recommendations

Metrics Tracking (tracker.ts)

• Tracks coding activities across files and languages
• Collects detailed file and session metrics
• Manages tracking configuration
• Provides session insights and aggregation

Persistent Storage (storage.ts)

• Manages long-term storage of coding metrics
• Handles file system interactions
• Implements data retention and pruning strategies

Configuration Management (config.ts)

• Provides centralized configuration handling
• Supports dynamic configuration updates
• Manages extension-wide settings

Dashboard and Visualization (dashboard.ts & charts.ts)

• Generates interactive web-based dashboards
• Creates visualizations using Chart.js
• Supports metrics export and refreshing

🛠 Configuration Files

package.json

• Defines extension metadata
• Specifies configuration options
• Lists dependencies and scripts
• Configures activation events and commands

tsconfig.json

• Configures TypeScript compilation
• Enables strict type checking
• Defines module resolution and target

esbuild.js

• Manages build process
• Supports development and production builds
• Generates build insights
• Handles external dependencies

🔧 Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• productivityDashboard.enableMetricTracking: Enable or disable metric tracking.
• productivityDashboard.complexityThresholds: Define complexity thresholds per language.
• productivityDashboard.complexityThreshold: Set general complexity threshold.
• productivityDashboard.trackingInterval: Configure tracking intervals in minutes.
• productivityDashboard.excludedLanguages: Exclude specific languages from tracking.
• productivityDashboard.enableDetailedLogging: Enable or disable detailed logging.
• productivityDashboard.retentionPeriod: Configure data retention in days.

🖼 Screenshots

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📌 Requirements

• VS Code ^1.98.0
• Node.js >=16.0.0

Download VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/download Download Node.js: https://nodejs.org/en

🚀 Future Enhancements

• Machine learning-based complexity prediction
• More advanced visualizations
• Language-specific deep analysis
• Integration with external code quality tools

🧪 Potential Testing

• Unit tests for complexity calculations
• Integration tests for tracking logic
• Mock VS Code extension context
• Performance benchmarking

🛠 Technologies Used

• TypeScript
• VS Code Extension API
• Chart.js
• esbuild
• Node.js APIs
• ESLint
• Mocha

🛠 Design Principles

• Modular architecture
• Loose coupling
• Extensibility
• Performance optimization
• Comprehensive type safety

🐞 Known Issues

List any known issues and potential fixes.

📜 Release Notes

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Enjoy productivity on another level!