Some Successful People Prefer a Messy Desk (2012)

As our app grows, an increasing amount of random code is landing in the app/services directory. I'm worried it will become impractical to improve on this, as the number of special cases will only increase. Some pain points off the top of my head (definitely not exhaustive):

However one of these paths is quite often lib which could lead to unintended consequences due to the 'junk drawer' nature of this directory.

That's like the example i wrote, and i think it's very ugly. It's annoying when frameworks are very elegant in demos and presentations but then that elegance disappear when you have to write real world code.

If this proposal is fully implemented, we will end up with this garbage everywhere.

// Prevent errors crashing Node.js, see: // https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/20392 this.promise.catch(() => {})

It’s easy to create bugs because the environment is a somewhat degenerate settings database.

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Instead of having this confusing maze of lambdas, regexes, and strings, we could, in theory, introduce a single entry point of configuration for Sprockets to use, and in that file declare all assets we wanted to compile. Well, that’s exactly what the manifest.js file is.

Plus, have you seen how many loopback mounting points it creates? "df" becomes very hard to use as it buries your actual drives with it's own. One for the daemon, one for GTK, one for Gnome, one for each of the snaps you have installed....

By design, snap apps have no access to /etc. They live in their own little world, but instead of a normal chroot, they are splatted all over the standard Linux filesystem layout. With other bits mounted hither and thither. Its a mess, and subject to change with each release.

The CardLayout creates a store in context and the Card creates a standardized div container and registers it to the store so that the CardLayout has access to that DOM element. Then in afterUpdate you can move the DOM elements into columns and Svelte will not try to put them back where they go. It's a bit messy but it works.

I applaud the effort to simplify things for 2.0! The current syntax feels sprawling and ad hoc.

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