Developers, how many monitors do you use for coding?
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Top comments (69)
One wide-screen 49 inch.
setup.emanuelebartolesi.com
Is it good to work with? Is this windows or macos? Do you use a window placement tool?
I use Microsoft PowerToys to split the screen in three parts.
The main in the center and two bars on the sides.
I will write a blog post about my monitor setup here on dev.to
I have never seen anyone who has the same setup (49 SUW using power toys)... Which I have been doing for 2 years now and thought I may be crazy! I went from 4x 24" down to a single 49" SUW. Now I want to stack another 34" on top 😎
Ps, your setup is super awesome!!!
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The constraint of 1 monitor and its real-estate forces me to be intentional about what I'm focusing on. More monitors lead to a lot of distractions for me (e.g. chat apps, browser tabs open to Twitter/YT/HN, ...etc).
i guess depends what you are coding, but as web dev i can't even imagine productive day with one screen.
Here's my workstation!
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I've used multiple screens in the past, but always find I'm more productive with just one.
I'm on the same boat, even if I have 2 screens I tend to prefer using the one in front and ignoring the secondary screen!
2... I prefer having one screen for everything I'm primarily using (vscode, my browser, or my console if doing tdd) and a second screen for any of my command lines that are open but not immediately needed. I prefer alt/tabbing between two windows that are in my immediate view rather than looking left and right between things.
Any more than 2 monitors I find cumbersome and I don't make much use of them. I do have a third monitors at home, but it never gets used while doing any dev. If anything, it's for extras, like youtube.
I work my MacBook Pro 13inc M1 touchbar with extra monitor if work hard. But so many times 1 screen is enough. I like this machine for extreme mobility. I can coding with 8+ hours without power supply. Doesn't matter where I sit down, even I can share my mobile net. Extra: I use Touch Pad instead mouse, so it is really nomade way of coding.
My setup is a bit unconventional. I have my main workstation and a macbook.
I have 3 monitors on my main workstation where actually write my code. Then I have 2 more monitors, macbook and another monitor.
I'm currently working with React Native so the macbook mainly handles the emulation for iOS and Android if I don't need the physical devices.
I use VSCode's Remote Development extension to SSH into the macbook and work in the project folders from my Windows workstation.
TL;DR - I have 5 monitors.
Usually 3
My job is a lot of quick juggling so being able to have VS Code, RStudio, terminal(s), AWS, Stack Overflow, docs, Slack, Asana, and Spotify all on screen at the same time is pretty great
I'm frequently on the move though so working with just my laptop screen is something I'm also used to, it's just a slightly different workflow
Two. One for my browser/devtools and one for my editor (VSCode).
Me too
I'm equaly productive using one or many. Now in my current position/job I'm using just one: an "amazing" 18" with a low resolution... which is a huge pain! but job politics doesn't allow me to use a wider neither another one. So any way, I'm still trying toget used to it :(.