Pluralsight Mob Timer

A cross-platform timer built on Electron for doing Mob Programming.

Heads up! There is also an extension for Visual Studio Code's Live Share experience. This is a different, standalone, project.

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.

Build the timer

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 install libcanberra-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.

Development

Run npm install to get the dependencies, then npm start to run the timer. Run npm test to run the unit tests once, or alternatively npm run watch to run them on changes.

Motivation

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

License

The Pluralsight Mob Timer is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.