DevsLOG: Strava For Coders

Introduction

Welcome to DevsLOG: Strava For Coders, a Visual Studio Code extension designed to revolutionize how developers track and analyze their coding sessions. Much like how Strava allows athletes to monitor and share their physical performance, DevsLOG empowers coders to track their productivity, analyze their progress, and stay connected with other developers in a collaborative environment.

This is the v1 of the DevsLOG platform, starting as a VS Code extension. More features will be introduced in the future as the community grows!

Features:

1. Track Your Coding Sessions

Automatically record the time spent coding during your active sessions in VS Code. DevsLOG tracks various parameters like start and end times, total duration, and active coding time.

2. In-Depth Session Analysis

After every session, receive an insightful analysis including:

• Total Time Coded: See how long you've worked during your session.
• Productivity Score: Get an overview of your focus and productivity based on interruptions, idle time, and more.
• Lines of Code (LOC): Keep track of how much code you've written or modified during the session.
• Streaks: Monitor how frequently you code and maintian daily streaks.
• Languages Worked On: Keep in track of the techstack your worked with and get deatils of how much you have invested in a particular language or a file

3. Progress Tracking

DevsLOG helps you track your overall progress with daily, weekly, and monthly reports. These summaries allow you to identify trends and improve your coding habits over time.

4. Multi-Window Tracking

DevsLOG when started in one vs code widow can track between different files, different tabs, different projects and different windows, so you need to start is once and then work on as many files as possible.

5. Share Your Sessions

With one click, share your coding session insights with the community. Whether it's a personal achievement, an interesting project, or simply tracking your productivity, DevsLOG allows you to keep others in the loop.

6. Stay Connected

Follow what other developers in the community are working on and exchange ideas. DevsLOG promotes a healthy developer community by encouraging sharing, collaboration, and friendly competition.

Installation

1. Open Visual Studio Code.
2. Go to the Extensions panel by clicking on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window or press Ctrl+Shift+X.
3. Search for DevsLOG: Strava For Coders.
4. Click Install.

Alternatively, you can install DevsLOG from the Visual Studio Marketplace or download it directly from this GitHub repository.

Usage

1. After installation, press Ctrl+Shift+P and search for Authenticate User to open the web version. Sign In to get a token and paste it in the extention to authenticate and sync.
2. After authentication, press Ctrl+Shift+P and search for Start Session to start a coding session.
3. DevsLOG will start tracking your session.
4. At the end of your session, press Ctrl+Shift+P and search for Stop Session. A new window will show your session analysis.
5. Find your last 30 days progress in the web dash board here.

Commands

• Start Session: Manually start a coding session.
• Stop Session: Manually stop a session and generate your session report.

Roadmap

This extension is in its first version, and we have plenty of exciting updates planned:

• Community Leaderboards: Compare your progress with other coders in the community.
• Task-Based Tracking: Categorize and track specific tasks or projects.
• Third-Party Integrations: Sync with GitHub, GitLab, and other developer platforms for seamless collaboration.
• Website and Mobile App: Access your coding insights on the go from any device and any platform.

v2 (latest)

• Track Coding Sessions: Automatically or manually start and stop tracking your coding sessions in VS Code.
• Web Dashboard: Find your last 30 days progress in the web dash board here.
• Session Time: Get the total duration of each coding session from start to finish.
• Word and Line Count: View the number of words and lines coded during the session.
• Files Worked On: See the total number of files you interacted with during the session.
• Languages Used: Track the number of different programming languages you worked with during a session, and get them arranged from most contributions to least.
• Parentheses, Backspaces, and Semicolons: DevsLOG tracks specific key usages like parentheses (), backspaces, and semicolons ; to provide detailed insights into your coding patterns.

v1

As the initial release, v1 of DevsLOG comes with core features designed to give you detailed insights into your coding sessions. The features included in this version are:

• Track Coding Sessions: Automatically or manually start and stop tracking your coding sessions in VS Code.
• Session Time: Get the total duration of each coding session from start to finish.
• Word and Line Count: View the number of words and lines coded during the session.
• Files Worked On: See the total number of files you interacted with during the session.
• Languages Used: Track the number of different programming languages you worked with during a session, and get them arranged from most contributions to least.
• Parentheses, Backspaces, and Semicolons: DevsLOG tracks specific key usages like parentheses (), backspaces, and semicolons ; to provide detailed insights into your coding patterns.