Introduction

The scope of the contribution are two PRs to my project, gerrit-native-notifications. Some of TypeScript capabilities has been applied to improve codebase readability and configuration process. This includes interfaces definition which represent Gerrit notification entities.

But wait... What the hell is this project about?

Motivation

There is quiet popular code review platform, called Gerrit. It allow you to review project team peers code, add comments, approvals etc. In the mean time, it generates notifications which informs some actions have just happened. Here is an example of of such notification:

Quiet non-readable form huh? Generally speaking, sending real-time typed notifications via email are not comfortable to work with development process. I found it really disappointing in daily work. "Why isn't it displayed as native notification?" you might ask. Same idea has born in my mind some day - and that's why gerrit-native-notifications has appeared on Github!

How does it work?

This is a simple service, written in nodejs, which receives notifications from Gerrit, parses it and displays as native notifications. So then, it looks like this:

What's more, notifications are displayed in real-time. No delays caused by SMTP. You have received +2 approval from team peer? You are ready to merge it! Interested in comment you have just received? Clicking on the notification will redirect you to gerrit change page.

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