Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.
I’m amazed by React and how it’s bringing happiness to our developer lives. I specially like the workflow that integrates Webpack + React + CSS Modules + Babel among other tools and preprocessors. That’s why Javier Jiménez and I are working together in a library called React Toolbox that we would like to show in a lightning talk at Reactive Conference.
The main idea is to create a set of React components implementing Material Design guidelines. There are already some libraries that solve a similar problem but our project is mostly focused on the workflow and best practices to create a tool everybody would want to use. Also, we are sticking to the design guidelines proposed by Google and embracing minimalism by generating the minimum possible amount of HTML and styles to get the best result. Our workflow includes among others:
While this gist has been shared and followed for years, I regret not giving more background. It was originally a gist for the engineering org I was in, not a "general suggestion" for any React app.
Typically I avoid folders altogether. Heck, I even avoid new files. If I can build an app with one 2000 line file I will. New files and folders are a pain.
#Introduction If you're a php developer on ubuntu, there comes the time where you have to install/reinstall your system. I did it already a few times and i decided to write down the steps for a typical web developer stack with php. This is for a developer machine and not for a live environment!
I hope it helps you too!
fyi @mheiniger and me started with an installer here: https://github.com/mheiniger/webdev-setup