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938: Hot Takes + Bike Shedding
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Wes and Scott dive into some hot takes and classic debates—tabs vs spaces, camel vs snake case, export styles, barrel files, variable naming, and more.
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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:26 CSS variables: descriptive vs. semantic
03:38 snake_case vs. camelCase
04:54 Default exports vs. named exports
06:23 Barrel files vs. direct imports
09:15 Function declaration vs. function expression
11:00 Inferred types vs. explicit types
13:40 Brought to you by Sentry.io
14:40 Long and explicit variable names vs. short with comments
16:27 Self-documenting code vs. code comments
17:03 Rebase vs. merge commit
18:39 Naming event parameters: e vs. event
20:33 Tabs vs. spaces
22:18 Big line height vs. small line height
23:50 Hard line length vs. line wrap
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