Show HN: JavaScript linter for keeping files small and modular

#1

Post by threedliams » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 7:41 PM UTC

Show HN: JavaScript linter for keeping files small and modular
chodejs.com

Re: Show HN: JavaScript linter for keeping files small and modular

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Post by purplecats » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 9:49 PM UTC

why that name

Re: Show HN: JavaScript linter for keeping files small and modular

#3

Post by threedliams » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 1:09 AM UTC

purplecats wrote: post #2

why that name

Do you find it inaccurate?

Re: Show HN: JavaScript linter for keeping files small and modular

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Post by purplecats » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 3:24 AM UTC

threedliams wrote: post #3

purplecats wrote: post #2

why that name

Do you find it inaccurate?

i only know the urbandictionary term for `chode`. perhaps the joke is going over my head

Re: Show HN: JavaScript linter for keeping files small and modular

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Post by manx » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 11:13 AM UTC

> your files must be wider than they are long

I don't understand why this is good or bad, can you please elaborate why this is a useful rule to follow?

Re: Show HN: JavaScript linter for keeping files small and modular

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Post by threedliams » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

manx wrote: post #5

> your files must be wider than they are long I don't understand why this is good or bad, can you please elaborate why this is a useful rule to follow?

Yeah totally fair question! For me it was motivated from seeing too many bloated, multi-use classes and files in enterprise codebases.

Keeping the file wider than it is long is a simple heuristic to make sure files don't grow out of their original scope and are instead split up based on separation of concerns, without just picking some arbitrary line number.