Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.
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Hasty Treat - Tidying Up Code #MarieKondo
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about tidying up your code - why it’s important and how it can make your (dev) life better.
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Show Notes3:24 - Removal
- Unneeded comments
- Unused CSS
- Unused Functions
8:06 - Organizing
- A system that works for you
- Know when to break things out into a new file, components, functions otherwise
- Index file works sometimes - other times it’s too much work
11:45 - Tiding Up
- Refactoring bad/old code
- Non-ironically, does this code spark joy?
- Unused Functions
- Add in comments
- Folding - use a code formatter
- CSS
- Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
- Better Comments VS Code
- Prettier
- ESLint
- Nicole Sullivan - Object Oriented CSS
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