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.

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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

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