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0 pointsrtpg11y ago0 comments

not OP, but some issues I get with JS are mainly due to refactoring. I think the tooling isn't as mature as in other languages, and moving around code has proven difficult (oh the joys of `this`!)

Software development is one part creation, one part understanding existing software, and one part changing existing stuff. Javascript has proven a bit difficult on the last part.

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woah11y ago· 1 in thread

This is likely an issue caused by code that is too monolithic in nature. Writing idiomatic node code involves making many small npm modules. Refactoring becomes very easy within the tiny code base of a module, and moving them around is a matter of require them somewhere else.

tracker111y ago

Not just via npm, but structuring your project via directory/file hierarchies that limit the amount of work in one file/module.

Avoiding the use of OO contexts and this helps a lot in terms of avoiding side effects, and improving testing and predictability as well.

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