Hasty Treat - Dot Files
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat (Short episode) Scott and Wes discuss dot files, what they are, how to use and manage them as well as best practices and more.
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Show Notes
3:15 - What is a dot file?
- Access tokens
- Settings for editors, etc.
4:40 - Dot file examples
- .gitignore
- .gitkeep
- .rc
- .babelrc
- .bashrc
- .eslintrc
- .env
- .DS_Store
- .editorconfig
- .meteorignore
23:46 - How to keep your dot files in sync
Hot Tip
- In MacOS, toggle dot files with “Shift + Cmd + .”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Monday, Monday, Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Open wide Dev fans. |
| 0:04.0 | Get ready to stuff your face |
| 0:06.0 | with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, |
| 0:09.0 | get workflows, |
| 0:10.0 | break dancing, soft skills, web development, |
| 0:12.0 | the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is |
| 0:18.1 | Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloko Tolinsky. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Syntax. |
| 0:28.0 | This is a hasty treat. |
| 0:29.4 | This means it's a short episode, but it still has jam-packed with delicious I don't know treats of |
| 0:35.6 | things that we're gonna talk about my name is West Boss with me as always is |
| 0:39.8 | Scott Tolinsky today we're gonna be talking all about dot files, which is whenever you open up a |
| 0:46.0 | GitHub repo or anything, you see all these dot whatever files and we're going to dive into what are they why would you need them what are |
| 0:54.7 | some tools that you can use to manage your dot files and sync them and and that'll |
| 0:59.2 | be it so how you doing today Scott doing good I'm ready to demystify some dot files on the dot yeah. |
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