hi everyone, 👋
you know what is the best thing about vs-code? you can configure it the way you want & develop something to expand upon it. well in that context, today we at [opendevs](https://opendevs.in) are introducing a new product: [relax a little](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=open-devs.relax-a-little). as the name suggests, this free extension tells you to relax in a way that you want.

![relax a little marketplace listing](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*mdRirRdIsRC2-DRumw-sNQ.png)*relax a little marketplace listing*

## Wait, What do you mean in a way you want 🤔?

well like a good but strict friend it can remind you to take a break from all the coding you''re doing & tell you to drink a little water or tell you to stop typing for a while, or straight up make the coding so uncolored that you have to take a break... but it asks you every detail about it first.

## How can I use it 📜?

just configure it using the various ways available to make it more stubborn than you are so, it''ll take care of the rest.

## What exactly can I configure ⚙?

whatever you want:

### at what time you want to take a break

![minutes till break setting](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*Dlqxj9by1ogldhPmAcfxIQ.png)

### minutes till break setting

![break duration minutes setting](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*3JJeZHIoSfmmY-_jXD0igQ.png)

### break duration minutes setting

![wind down duration minutes setting](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*i4Xh4rZI4QCCCJUwdbXoCw.png)

### at what rate colors will change?

![color change frames setting](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*YJhLMrCSYNy4ISyQu0y5Gw.png)

### color change frames setting

if you forget to drink sufficient water (like us), then at what duration it should tell you for a little water break:

![minutes till water break setting](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*aqOCUNhByLFlR8Y1jdT_KA.png)

### minutes till water break setting

finally, our motivation behind it is to not put 1000 blocking notifications on your screen as [we know how much some of you hate annoying popups](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63460), we did our homework:

![blocking notification setting](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*r63m-tYNFCYRHhNTnDCrnw.png)

also, each feature can individually be turned off, so you are good at your water amount or are saving water for the environment you can tell the extension so:

![commands available](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*ZiQ8AabvsWxXvSaqx_oCjQ.png)

## Full demo

![full demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opendevs-org/relax-a-little/main/static/images/demo.gif)

## What''s the story or motivation behind this❓

well on a fine lockdown Sunday we were working on some freelancing work, we were at it for a few hours at that point in time not realizing how much time has passed, one of us remember sitting at our laptop after morning break and when he looked out of the window next, people were taking their dogs out for evening stroll 🤦‍♂️🤦‍. we knew we had to do something about it & we definitely show some of our friends having the same issue. we added this extension to our roadmap.

## I can simply ignore these notifications, no use to me 😑

if you want you can contact us & we might give you a call from time to time (on skype or other free platforms of course) but that''s all we can do right? after all self-control is the key thing to learn while being a developer.

## Can I contribute to make it better 😎 ?

of course, you can we will love it for you to come up with ideas to improve fellow developers'' health without being disruptive to their work & then implement those great ideas with us or fix some critical issues.

## Are there some ideas you have in mind that I can develop as of now 🤩?

we do want to have a theme changer feature in it in near future to change the theme based on the time of the day, we also want to include some random quotes in breaks to make it fun to look at, of course, all of these features should be individually turn off-able.

### so save on all those medicine 💊 costs & give this project an ⭐ at [github](https://github.com/opendevs-org/relax-a-little) & [visual studio marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=open-devs.relax-a-little)?

Like a good but strict friend it can remind you to take a break from all the coding you're doing & tell you to drink a little water

Relax a little with relax-a-little extension

hi everyone, 👋
today we’ll learn to use a great generator tool to create a fastify server in everyone’s favourite typescript language. 👨‍💻

## now the first question first, what is fastify?

![https://fastify.io/](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ob3zjtv5rudp4x0pq6hy.png)

if you are coming from Node.js background you must have heard of expressjs, it is a web application framework that provides you with a simple API to build websites, web apps and back ends. Now express can be considered as a bit slower. fastify is detailed as a “fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js”. fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. it is inspired by express and hapi, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. using fastify can increase your throughput by up to 100%.

**advantages of using fastify?**

* 100% asynchronous: all the core is implemented with asynchronous code, in this way not even a millisecond is wasted.
* highly performant: as far as we know, fastify is one of the fastest web frameworks in town, depending on the code complexity we can serve up to 20000 requests per second.
* extendible: **fastify** is fully extensible via its hooks, plugins, and decorators.

![https://fastify.io/benchmarks/](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/7erqnz4z1q9fg38swqz8.png)

**why do we need a generator?**
to scaffold applications quicker we need a generator to provide us with a basic useful template on which we can expand based on our requirements.

## & so comes fastify-typescript-generator

![https://npmjs.com/package/fastify-typescript-generator](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/aoufvtxsjg43varjfqor.png)

we created this generator keeping few things in mind:

* using typescript in our templates for better coding standards & attain all the other benefits of typescript.
* providing a template for people familiar with express
* providing a template for people wanting to familiarize themselves with the concept of fastify and it’s the plugin system.
* providing templates with the option to choose between mongoose (a well known MongoDB driver in node.js world supporting schema) & TypeORM which is an ORM that can be used to connect to various SQL as well as MongoDB database (MongoDB connection in BETA) & work with them built specifically keeping typescript in mind.
* some templates have OpenAPI (previously Swagger) implementation
* a cool interactive CLI

so please check it out. it’s already gaining tracking in the community.

### ✨ [npm link](https://www.npmjs.com/package/fastify-typescript-generator)

## how to use it?

![https://github.com/opendevs-org/fastify-typescript-generator#-demo](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/y2712lt025tf8xgjh5sv.gif)

or in textual form:

### install

```js
npm i -g fastify-typescript-generator
```

### usage

run anyone of following commands:

```js
fastify-gen
# or
fastify-typescript-generator
# or
fastify-ts-gen
```

### so let''s build some fast servers & give this project an ⭐ at [github](https://github.com/opendevs-org/fastify-typescript-generator)?

Fastify is detailed as a “fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js”. This project helps create starter boilerplate for Fastify.js easily.

Generator for Fastify.js server with TypeScript

hi everyone, 👋
today we’ll learn about how use a tool that generates new [express](https://expressjs.com/) applications in everyone''s favourite language [typescript](https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript) with various options to choose from based on your project needs

### 🏠 [homepage](https://github.com/opendevs-org/express-boilerplate-generator#README)

### ✨ [npm link](https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-boilerplate-generator)

## install

```sh
npm i -g express-boilerplate-generator
```

## usage

Run anyone of following commands:

```sh
$ express-gen
# or
$ express-typescript-generator
# or
$ express-ts-gen
```

Or, to avoid installation and usage simply use the following command:

```sh
npx express-boilerplate-generator
```

## ❓ what is it

creates a new express application as a starter boilerplate similar to the express-gen module. except this new application is configured to use typeScript instead of plain javascript and provides various options such as, kind of project structure to use with focus on auth support along with documentaion to fasten the development process.

## 🤔 why express-boilerplate-generator

nodejs is great for the rapid development of web-projects, but is often neglected because of the lack of type safety. typescript solves this issue and (along with its linter file) can even make your code more robust than some other static languages like java.

there are some other tools out there to generate express apps with javascript such as Express application generator, but these either haven''t been updated in a while or don''t support typescript or don''t have pre-added documentation support.

in this application you have two options to setup a project either with or without auth.

## 📜 different options available explained

| name                            | description                                                                                                                                                                          |
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [express-server-boilerplate](https://github.com/opendevs-org/express-boilerplate-generator/blob/master/lib/templates/express-server-boilerplate/README.md)      | this type of structure provides auth-less express server boilerplate codes to kickstart your backend development along with the support of typedoc & swagger.                        |
| [express-server-boilerplate-auth](https://github.com/opendevs-org/express-boilerplate-generator/blob/master/lib/templates/express-server-boilerplate-auth/README.md) | this type of structure provides express server boilerplate codes to kickstart your backend development with authentication support. It uses passport-jwt and passport as dependency. |


happy app-deving 😊

### so let''s build some express apps & give this project an ⭐ at [github](https://github.com/opendevs-org/express-boilerplate-generator)

Creates a new express application as a starter boilerplate similar to express-gen module, except this new application is configured to use TypeScript

Scaffold starter Express.js App with ease

hi everyone, 👋
today we’ll have a look at great tool that enables us to download aws s3 data smartly. 👨‍💻

## so what is this tool?

this project enables downloading data from s3 a breeze, it has 3 modes _(CLI mode, Interactive mode & Download All mode)_ using which you can download _aws s3 bucket_ files into default or custom path.

If you choose the same directory as previous time, it''ll `sync` those changes.

> It now supports setting of aws config like AWS Access key ID, AWS Secret key, AWS region & Output format in interactive mode

### 🏠 [homepage](https://github.com/opendevs-org/S3-Bucket-Download/#README)

### ✨ [npm link](https://www.npmjs.com/package/s3-bucket-downloader)

## install

```sh
npm i -g s3-bucket-downloader
```

## usage

_run anyone of following commands (only interactive mode available currently):_

> interactive mode now supports setting of aws config like AWS **access key ID**, **secret key**, **region** & **output format** in interactive mode if none present in the system.

```sh
s3
# or
s3-downloader
# or
s3-bucket-downloader
```

## usage (advanced user)

> advanced users have to set AWS config themselves for now

### _interactive mode:_

```sh
node download
```

> it''ll display list of all buckets in an array & ask for options like:

![interactive mode options](https://opendevs-website-assets.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/img/blogs/interactive-mode.png)

### _CLI mode:_

```sh
node download --bucketName=[comma,seperated,bucketnames] --path=[path to save to for ex: ../data]
```

> without brackets ofcourse.

### _download all mode:_

```sh
node download --all
```

> just downloads all of the files in all of the buckets.

## logs

>it shows logs too, like these:

![interactive mode options](https://opendevs-website-assets.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/img/blogs/logs.png)

### so let''s download assets form s3 without hassle & give this project an ⭐ at [github](https://github.com/opendevs-org/S3-Bucket-Download)?

This project enables downloading data from s3 a breeze, powered by 3 powerful modes & customization

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Relax a little with relax-a-little extension

Generator for Fastify.js server with TypeScript

Scaffold starter Express.js App with ease

An easy way to download files from AWS s3