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by codeapprove 1y ago
I made a competitor to GitHubs UI for Pull Requests (codeapprove.com) It’s built in Vue. My first 5 or 6 attempts at writing the diff viewer were very slow when things got big. I optimized this a lot and now I’m pretty proud of how snappy i
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by codeapprove 1y ago
Some others which are good: * Reviewable * Codestream (formerly GitContext) * Codelantis * CodeApprove (biased, obviously)
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by codeapprove 2y ago
You would be surprised! I have encountered the attitude that code reviews are a waste of time. It's not common, and I have never seen this attitude "win" across a team/company but it definitely exists. Some engineers are
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by codeapprove 2y ago
Shameless plug but since you asked ... CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) is probably the closest thing you can get to Critique on GitHub. It doesn't help with the Piper/CitC/Code Search parts though, and I agr
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by codeapprove 2y ago
I’m biased (I created https://codeapprove.com ) but I think GitHub has let code review lag so far behind the rest of the platform. They’ve done a lot of work on project management, CI, discussions, and code authoring but code rev
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by codeapprove 2y ago
I’d recommend CodePeer (formerly GitContext) which is one of the best human code review tools and recently expanded to offer AI review as well. https://codepeer.com/features/ai
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by codeapprove 2y ago
Love the history here! I built a business (CodeApprove) around not liking GitHub's UI for code reviews and I still didn't know most of this. I will never understand why GitHub has not invested as much in code review as they have i
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by codeapprove 2y ago
Love the blog post, it's great to see people actually thinking about how code review should work! I've used four different code review systems extensively, all with different strengths and weaknesses: Critique (Google internal), G
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by codeapprove 2y ago
This is 100% true. For some reason GitHub has put very little love into code review even though the Pull Request is probably their most important flow. The good news is that many people have built better code review interfaces on top of Git
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by codeapprove 2y ago
Not affiliated with the project but you could use something like OpenRouter to give users a massive list of models to choose from with fairly minimal effort https://openrouter.ai/
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Honestly that’s fair because GitHub is very good and probably too cheap. If they doubled their prices tomorrow I wouldn’t even consider leaving. What would you pay for CodeApprove? Also if you email me I’m happy to set you up with a 6-month
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by codeapprove 3y ago
I was on a team at Google that used both Critique and GitHub very heavily, so I was able to constantly see the side-by-side and understand the pain engineers faced when doing external code reviews (as a whole, people actually liked working
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Shameless but relevant plug: I built CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) to bring the best parts of the Critique workflow to GitHub PRs. Obviously there are many things that don't translate (Google doesn't use git, a
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Shameless but relevant plug: if you’re a Xoogler and you miss Critique check out CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ). CodeApprove was built to make GitHub PRs a lot more appealing to those who miss the Critique workflow (among
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Actually you can’t comment on lines that haven’t been changed if they’re too far from the changed lines! It’s a weird limitation of GitHubs data model. (source: that’s one of the features that people like most about the review tool I create
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Bias warning: I created CodeApprove to give GitHub reviews a better UI. GitHub PR review UI is … fine. But it has very little depth. Unlike an IDE it’s hard to grow into a power user of it. It seems to be optimized for simple reviews with 1
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by codeapprove 3y ago
CodeApprove does not have that feature because we don't currently do any smart code parsing to understand what would make a file "related". I think Viezly ( https://viezly.com/ ) does the best job at that.
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by codeapprove 3y ago
I agree 1000%. I’m the creator of what I believe is a better review interface for GitHub ( https://codeapprove.com ) but there are also many others: * CodeApprove (codeapprove.com) * Graphite (graphite.dev) * Reviewable (r
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Yes yes yes! I am biased because I make/sell an alternative UI for GitHub code review ( https://codeapprove.com ) but I think most of us can agree that GitHub's tools for code review are not nearly as good as they could
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by codeapprove 3y ago
This looks excellent! I really like the design and I fully agree with most of the problems you’re trying to solve. The biggest issue with code review tools is that we’re mostly all using the same one (GitHub) with no customization. We shoul
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by codeapprove 3y ago
I love seeing projects like this! In general I have always been extremely impressed with the coverage of GitHub's APIs. They're generally well designed, well documented, and available publicly around the same time as a new feature
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Shameless plug but if you're looking for an alternative UI for GitHub PRs, you may want to try CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) Frustrations with GitHub's PR performance, limitations, and overall clunky UX are the
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Oh do you mean allowing the author to select the order? That's a very cool idea!
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I definitely need to get over hating the sound of my own voice and record a demo video.
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Good question, and yes! I'll get a text message as soon as they ask to sign up and I'll have them in the alpha by the end of the day. Anyone who is already in the alpha can invite unlimited teammates. It's probably ready for
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Is it too developed if it’s in private alpha? Anyway … I’ve been working on CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) for a while because I think code review is the biggest shortcoming of GitHub. The idea is to make a code review to
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by codeapprove 3y ago
No plans for Gitlab at the moment, but maybe one day!
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Yes that's a real risk! CodeApprove is not (yet) anyone's full time job so it's also an acceptable risk. However I think the biggest issue with the landscape for code review tools is that 99% of developers use the default sys
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Shameless plug but if you're missing Critique and working on GitHub, try CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) which brings as much of the Critique magic to GitHub as possible.
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by codeapprove 3y ago
Thanks for the CodeApprove shoutout! If anyone here in the comments wants to try it out, just let me know!

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