Version Control Preferences: Rebasing vs. Merging

Wes and Scott dive into some hot takes and classic debates—tabs vs spaces, camel vs snake case, export styles, barrel files, variable naming, and more.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:26 CSS variables: descriptive vs. semantic
• 03:38 snake_case vs. camelCase
• 04:54 Default exports vs. named exports
• 06:23 Barrel files vs. direct imports
• 09:15 Function declaration vs. function expression
• 11:00 Inferred types vs. explicit types
• 13:40 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 14:40 Long and explicit variable names vs. short with comments
• 16:27 Self-documenting code vs. code comments
• 17:03 Rebase vs. merge commit
• 18:39 Naming event parameters: e vs. event
• 20:33 Tabs vs. spaces
• 22:18 Big line height vs. small line height
• 23:50 Hard line length vs. line wrap

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