Save us from Config File Hell

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what you can do to better organize your config files. Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 02:20 Electric car ski tripping 05:01 Why config files? 07:47 Custom Vite config files Wes’ Vite config define: { __VERSION__: JSON.stringify(process.env.npm_package_version), }, 11:16 Node has failed us 13:30 Cosmic config Cosmiconfig 16:46 File nesting 21:01 Standardize on a format 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

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss! And Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax! In today's Monday hasty treat, we're going to be talking about
0:35.0	config files. How much we love them. How many of them there are? And we must love them
0:41.0	because we have tons and tons of them. So my name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer
0:45.0	from Denver. With me, as always, is Wes Boss. Wes, what's up? How's your config files?
0:50.0	Look in, how's the root of your project? Is it full of files?
0:54.0	The root of my project is looking good. This sort of stumbled upon one the other day
1:00.0	that had 30 config files in it. And I just screenshot it. And I was like, I think that's
1:06.0	a record for me. And the response to it was really interesting. There was a lot of people
1:10.0	that were like modern web development, LOL, garbage, and even though half of them
1:16.0	weren't related to run end development at all. And the other thing is just like,
1:22.0	we kind of need them. I don't like it either. It's so obnoxious that your root of
1:28.0	your Git repo is full of a million different files and whatnot. So we're here to
1:34.0	sort of help you save yourself from config file hell. And figure out how do we
1:42.0	make this manageable both in local dev, as well as some ideas about, I think
1:47.0	node has kind of failed this year. So we'll get into that as well.
1:51.0	Yeah, totally. How are you doing? You just got back from ski and I heard? Yeah.
1:55.0	Yeah, I was telling you, I got the classic ski tan where the tip of my nose is bright red.
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