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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Tidying Up Code #MarieKondo

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 3:24 - 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 Links Tidying Up with Marie Kondo Better Comments VS Code Prettier ESLint Nicole Sullivan - Object Oriented CSS Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Transcript

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday,

0:02.0

Open wide Dev fans.

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Get ready to stuff your face

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with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

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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 Toroloco, Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Oh, welcome to Syntax in this Monday hasty treat.

0:30.0

We're going to be talking about tidying up your code, why it's important, why you should definitely

0:37.7

take some time to look at old code, look at code that's been there, or even look at code that you're currently writing and

0:44.1

well just make it better for you and your team. My name is Scott Tolinsky and

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with me as always is West Boss.

0:52.8

What's up?

0:53.2

Hello.

0:54.1

I'm excited to see what parts of my code

0:56.6

bring me joy today.

0:58.0

Yes, I'm excited to talk about the code that brings me joy as well.

1:02.1

And something else that brings me joy is

1:03.7

Century.io which is an amazing way to track all of your errors exceptions and bugs

1:10.5

now Century integrates with so many things that you already use in your tool chain

1:15.7

and it does so in such a great ways such as GitHub, Haroku, Slack, Bit Bucket Jura, hip chat,

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