I really wanted an easy way to provide code reviews for the coding bootcamp students i mentor. The most ideal solution would've been to use github's pull request feature to leave comments on code, but the biggest issue is that you can't leave comments on files not in a commit. Makes it super impractical to use

So I made a little app where you put in a GitHub repository URL, and it'll pull down all the files. Click on a file, click on some lines, and leave a comment.

Comments are global to a repo, so someone viewing the comments only needs to also open the app and they'll see the comments. You can reply to comments, too.

I tried to make the ideal reviewing experience - basically fixing a bunch of inconveniences I feel when I'm reviewing code in my local editor and GitHub.

it doesn't have a name right now 🙃

I just stood it up on render.com: here's the link

you have to login to github to share the github traffic for reading files in a repo. the token is used to: - pull down your username and profile picture to display in comments and a welcome message - pull down github files and repo info (so you could use private repos that you have access to)

enjoy!