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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Writing Good Commit Messages

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about a system for writing good commit messages. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 03:46 - What are conventional commits? https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/ 04:55 - How do you keep track of all the details? https://commitizen-tools.github.io/commitizen/ https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vivaxy.vscode-conventional-commits 07:42 - How does it relate to SemVer? Links https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog https://github.com/netflix/unleash Deno Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday,

0:02.0

Open wide Dev fans.

0:04.0

Get ready to stuff your face

0:06.0

with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

0:09.0

get workflows,

0:10.0

break dancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

0:18.1

Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Tolinsky.

0:26.0

Welcome to Syntax, and this Monday, hasty treat,

0:29.0

we're going to be talking all about conventional commits.

0:32.2

And if that sounds like something you never heard of before

0:34.2

then you are gonna be very excited about this one because it's gonna be talking about

0:37.5

commit messages and a system for the sort of specific commit messages that you can write that can then have more intent and

0:46.4

functionality within your application overall.

0:49.8

Commit messages are hard and having a system for it takes all the guesswork out of it.

0:53.2

So we're going to be talking about conventional commits in this episode.

0:56.2

My name is Scott Tolinsky.

0:57.3

I am a developer from Denver, Colorado and with me as always is Wes Boss.

1:01.6

Hey, yeah.

1:03.0

Hey, Wes, you know one place where conventional commits

1:05.4

will definitely come in handy is your century.

1:08.2

Because you can get what commit,

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