Team Tools
The intended readership of this page is new joiners to the team, the page illustrates tools which the team use frequently.
MacOS
Engineers will be provided with MacBooks. Some additional software and commandline tools are subsequently required, they can be quickly installed following these instructions.
VSCode
Some of our preferred extensions are listed below, to install these extensions on VSCode (Ctrl + Shift + P; “Install Extensions”):
HashiCorp Terraform (Syntax highlighting and autocompletion for Terraform)
Gitmoji 😎 (An emoji tool for your git commit messages)
Tabnine (👩💻🤖 JavaScript, Python, Java, Typescript & all other languages - AI Code completion plugin. Tabnine makes developers more productive by auto-completing their code.)
(optional) Change your colour scheme. Save your eyes! 👀 Dracula 🧛 is a good one.
Signing GitHub Commits
Some of our repos are configured to accept only signed commits.