In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes bike shed some common developer opinions.
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Show Notes
04:27 - Event params
06:36 - CSS variables
09:31 - CSS colors
11:52 - Default exports vs named exports
14:45 - JavaScript import ordering
17:09 - Foo / Bar / Baz in examples
21:18 - Light vs dark themes
24:00 - longVerboseNamesDescribingWhatItIsOrDoes vs x
26:54 - VScode vs WebStorm (IDE) vs Vim
31:12 - TypeScript Generics: vs
34:39 - Indentation-base syntax
37:37 - Max line length
40:21 - One reduce, vs multiple .map()/flat(),filter()
async function getStatus() { const res = await sendCommand('AT!GSTATUS'); const result = res.result .split('\n') .map((x: string) => x.split(`\t\t`)) .flat() .filter(Boolean) .map((x: string) => x.trim()) .map((x: string) => x.split(` \t`)) .flat() .filter((x: string) => x.includes(':')) .map((x: string) => x.split(`:`)) .map(([prop, val]: [string, string]) => [prop, val.trim()]) return Object.fromEntries(result); }
42:50 - index.js files
48:20 - Ligatures and fancy fonts
50:30 - Regular functions vs anon functions in a variable vs arrow functions
- function hey() {}
- const hey = function() {}
- const hey = () ⇒ {}
52:44 - Explicit return vs implicit return
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