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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