Improve the coala CLI

Work Done

With this project we’ve tried to improve the user experience of coala in CLI. Many hours were spend trying to improve the design of it and we hope it’s better. Of course, anything can be improved over and over again. Chain Actions is right now by default. You can now apply multiple actions in a single input Apply single actions was added. You can use flag -A and choose an action to apply for every result Show applied actions print the latest actions that a user has done in a run of coala Generate patch action generates a patch for a file based on bears depending on what language did you used in the file.

I worked just in coala repository from github. Most of the work was done in ConsoleInteraction.py file were I did major changes. Other changes were made by adding new files for every new action and tests for all of them.

Now, --no-color flag works properly. This was an old bug that we solved.

No more background green color when coala shows the results and the diffs.

Challenges

It was a great learning experience overall. I think that the most dificult think was to have 100% coverage from tests. Also I tried to wrote good, clean code that new people could understand it. The most interesting part was when I tried to think the needs of the user so I can write useful new actions. Thanks to both of my mentors Adrian Zatreanu & Muhammad Kaisar Arkhan. Thank you for everything!

Work to be done

I think we should have something like a special day, every release, when we try to receive feedback from users. Make a list of good questions that we can ask them.

I think the design of the ouput can be improved more for a better experience. New actions can be added based on the needs of our users and actions that are already implemented can be improved to cover the interests of the users.