Miscellaneous

15.1. Miscellaneous#

Add these 8 must-have VSCode extensions when you work with Python to boost your productivity.

𝐏𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭: Makes sure your indentation is correct with every Enter you make
𝐏𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: A no-brainer. Includes many benefits like Parameter suggestions, Code navigation, Signature help, and many more. Microsoft declared it as the default language server for Python.
𝐆𝐢𝐭𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐬: Provides powerful features for your Git experience like seeing when a specific line was committed by whom in which pull request with which commit message. And much more. A must-have!
𝐉𝐮𝐩𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐫: Notebook supports and allows any Python environment to be used as a Jupyter kernel.
𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐋 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧: Automatically evaluates Python code in real time as you type. Displays variables and errors in a readable way. Only works for Python >= 3.7.
𝐏𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡: Helps you generate internal import statements in a Python project.
𝐏𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐫: Shows a test explorer without effort instead of going through the output from the terminal.
𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: Quickly generate docstrings for your functions

Are you starting a new Data Science Project?

And go through the hassle of setting up the project structure?

Try cookiecutter.

cookiecutter is a command-line tool to create projects from templates.

This allows you to save time and have a standardized project structure.

There are tons of cookiecutter projects on GitHub you can use.

Say goodbye to tedious project setup.

Link to cookiecutter repository: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter

Data Science cookiecutter: https://github.com/drivendata/cookiecutter-data-science

Do you want something like create-react-app, but for anything?

Try smol-developer from smol-ai.

smol-developer scaffolds an entire codebase, based on a Markdown file with your specifications.

You describe, what kind of application you want to develop and it will create the necessary boilerplate code.

Link to Repository: https://github.com/smol-ai/developer

Clear and standardized commit messages are important.

But it’s not always easy to have a standardized way in teams.

With commitizen, you will get a release management tool designed for teams.

It helps you define committing rules, bump project versions and create a changelog.

It makes your life easier by enforcing writing descriptive commits.

One Docker Tip:

Use a .dockerignore file to avoid adding unnecessary files to the image.

This will definitely reduce your Docker image size, but also more safe.

# .dockerignore
.git
.cache
*.md
!README*.md
README-secret.md
.env