A cross-platform timer built on Electron for doing Mob Programming
Click the gear icon in the top right to configure the timer. Then click the large circle to start/stop the timer, or the smaller circle to skip to the next mobber.
Run npm install
and then one of the following commands for your respective operating system:
- Windows:
npm run build-win
- Mac OS X:
npm run build-mac
- Linux:
npm run build-linux
(You may need to installlibcanberra-gtk-module
)
Platform specific packages will be placed in the dist
directory.
If you need a platform other than these, you will need to modify the build script in the package.json
file.
Run npm install
to get the dependencies, then npm start
to run the timer.
Run npm test
to start the unit tests, or npm run integration_test
to run integration tests.
Pluralsight has a development team that does mob programming full-time, and a few other teams dabble in mobbing as well. We have tried and enjoyed a number of other mob timers, but we had various (mostly minor) gripes with them. So we decided to build one of our own.
We had a few goals:
- Make a timer that is hard to ignore, but also not overly annoying
- Implement escalating alerts
- Customization
- Have a timer that we can easily hack on, built with tech we know
The Pluralsight Mob Timer is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.