lols, just salute

Is eslint calling me stupid?

when eslint has had enough of your shit

Code: *Exists*
TSLint Nibbas:

Be me
> find an eslint bug
> report it on their github
> ask to assign it to self
> start working on it
> spend half a day to find out the source of bug
> realises the bug is coming from a library eslint is using
> report it on the library's github
> ask to assign it to self
🤦🏻‍♂️

So I put a very strict eslint configuration to a 6 month old project
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924 errors in 27 files
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I removed eslint from the project

How to start a new node.js project:

$ mkdir CleverName

$ npm init

Google common copyright licenses
Spend next hour weighing the pros and cons of each before deciding "fukkit I guess MIT works IANAL" (this is the default anyway)

$ npm install --save express

$ npm uninstall --save express

Google koa vs express

Google koa docs

$ npm install --save express

$ npm install -g bower

Ponder how overly meta that last command was while you watch a package manager install a package manager

$ bower init

$ bower install angular

$ bower uninstall angular

Google angular vs angular 2

Search careers.stackoverflow.com for Angular, React, etc

Sigh as Angular still returns the most hits

$ bower install angular

$ nvim index.js

Write what amounts to a hello world

$ git commit -a -m "Initial commit"

Shit.

$ git reset HEAD~1

Download template .gitignore

$ git commit -a -m "Initial commit"

$ jshint index.js

Download template .jshint

$ jshint index.js

$ 9001 errors, 2 warnings

Google .jshintrc configuration

Google JSHint vs ESLint

$ npm install -g eslint

$ eslint init

Choose AirBnB preset

$ eslint index.js

37572 Errors

$ cd ..

$ mv CleverName EvenBetterName

$ cd EvenBetterName

$ rm package.json

$ npm init

Google EvenBetterName

$ cd ..

$ rm -rf EvenBetterName

$ npm install -g ProjectThatDidExactlyWhatYouWantedAnyway

Module build failed: Module failed because of a eslint error.

217:15 error 'param' is assigned a value but never used no-unused-vars

Me:
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it

Me:
console.log(param);

When it's your job to fix the 15,000 errors picked up after suggesting to add ESLint to an existing project 😣

writing library code is hard.

there are sooo many details that go into writing good libraries:

designing intuitive and powerful apis
deciding good api option defaults, disallowing or warning for illegal operations

knowing when to throw, knowing when to warn/log
handling edge cases
having good code coverage with tests that doesn't suck shit, while ensuring thry don't take a hundred years to run

making the code easy to read, to maintain, robust
and also not vulnerable, which is probably the most overlooked quality.

"too many classes, too little classes"

the functions do too much it's hard to follow them
or the functions are so well abstracted, that every function has 1 line of code, resulting in code that is even harder to understand or debug (have fun drowning in those immense stack traces)

don't forget to be disciplined about the documentation.

most of these things are
deeply affected by the ecosystem, the tools of the language you're writing this in:

like 5 years ago I hated coding in nodejs, because I didn't know about linters, and now we have tools like eslint or babel, so it's more passable now

but now dealing with webpack/babel configs and plugins can literally obliterate your asshole.

some languages don't even have a stable line by line debugger (hard pass for me)

then there's also the several phases of the project:

you first conceive the idea, the api, and try to implement it, write some md's of usage examples.

as you do that, you iterate on the api, you notice that it could better, so you redesign it. once, twice, thrice.

so at that point you're spending days, weeks on this side project, and your boss is like "what the fuck are you doing right now?"

then, you reach fuckinnnnng 0.1.0, with a "frozen" api, put it on github with a shitton of badges like the badge whore you are.

then you drop it on forums, and slack communities and irc, and what do you get?

half of the community wants to ban you for doing self promotion

the other half thinks either
a) your library api is shitty
b) has no real need for it
c) "why reinvent the wheel bruh"

that's one scenario,

the other scenario is the project starts to get traction.

people start to star it and shit.
but now you have one peoblem you didn't have before: humans.

all sorts of shit:

people treating you like shit as if they were premium users.

people posting majestically written issues with titles like "people help, me no work, here" with bodies like "HAAAAAAAAAALP".

and if you have the blessing to work in the current js ecosystem, issues like "this doesn't work with esm, unpkg, cdnjs, babel, webpack, parcel, buble, A BROWSER".
with some occasional lunatic complaining about IE 4 having a very weird, obscure bug.

not the best prospect either.

5 years as a software engr. In the last year I have programmed in java, js, ruby, and python professionally.

Just want to thank the guys contributing to linting tools. ESLint, Prettier, and other syntax helpers/correction tools.
You guys are awesome.

New guy wanna change our code style.

Retarded person I met today : "JS is gay cos you require strict mode for blah blah blah"

Me (and my webdev friend): pfft...

[Shows our ESLint Styling rules]

him: "o-oh... How the f-"

Dear ESLint,
- you convinced me to put a space between function() and {
- you convinced me to use single quotes for strings in place of double quotes
- you convinced me to put a space between inline operators
- you had me when you said that trailing spaces shouldn't compare in my code
- you said to put semicolons at the end of each instruction, and I thought it wasn't a so bad idea

BUT NO FUCK OFF NO NEVER I WON'T NEVER PUT A FUCKING TRAILING COMMA IN THE END OF JAVASCRIPT OBJECT IT'S MEANINGLESS UGLY A WASTE OF A FUCKING BYTE.
WHY THE FUCK I SHOULD TYPE var obj = {a: 'some text',} INSTEAD OF var obj = {a: 'some text'} WHY WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THAT FUCKING COMMA

take adderall and stay up coding all night extremely effectively, but then u keep going and by the end of it you're just optimizing your vim plugins and installing a new linter

Apparently `a || b` is unreadable to set a default value for a string in JS, but assigning temporary variables and use if statements all over is better somehow.

My code reviewer said use `a ? a : b` except it failed eslint, so he went back on that. (eslint suggested `a || b`, ffs.)

hey guys,

I've been working with js for like 5 years now, and I figured I could help some people out, if needed.

I wouldn't consider myself a js lord, but I have some decent experience, and even if I don't know something I'll be honest about it and at the very least I'm pretty sure I'll point you in the right direction.

I'm fond of vue, lodash, es6, node, eslint bla bla. I also know rails.

In any case, my objective with this is to learn myself.

So feel free to tag me if you have any type of question about anything js.

Cheers.

In my editor;

Me: console.log(data)
ESLint: Unexpected console statement.

Me:
const { log } = console;
log(data)

ESLint:

EsLint => 3n errors in you code.
Program failed to run

Removed ESLint

And application ran forever

EsLint is like that mother that warns her daughter time to time. Dont sit like this. Dont play with your hair. Dont whistle

CAN NODEJS KINDLY GO FUCK ITSELF?

well maybe not node itself, but those node js so-called "professional node developers"

WHO THE FUCK thought it was a good idea to pass about EVERY SINGLE ARGUMENT as a global variable so absolutely no code insights are available, eslint with THEIR eslintrc shows ABOUT ONE MILLION DIFFERENT LINTER WARNING and on top they commited the node_modules folder

-_-

I'm out.

Senior colleague wants to remove eslint from a project, it keeps giving him errors when his lines are several hundred characters long 😐

Current status of Eslint indentation rules:

Completely fucked

Look, normally I don't give a shit how others code, but when the company's style guide is literally just the statement "use eslint", and I have to do code reviews...we will start to have problems.

ESLint

I hate the shit out of JavaScript, but god damn having a tool that autoformats everyone's code to look the same is fucking incredible, and I miss it in every other language. Haven't found much that comes close.

When you've got your first job as a junior dev with a company of 5 people, but don't have a mentor and don't really want to pay £12/hr for one.

Eslint + airbnb is the closest I have to a mentor.

Looks like ESLint is all confused about my tabs and spaces. I've never seen this kind of error message where it expects the tabs to be the same number as the spaces indentation? I have it configured for 1 tab = 2 spaces.

So confused. Must fix. Red squiggles make my blood hurt.

VIM and EMACS. If I were to really spend the time to learn either of them in great depth, would I really be able to get an equivalent or better experience than I already do with VS Code Plus ‘live server reload’ and ESLint for when I’m editing JavaScript, node, handlebars and html files?

I have a high tolerance for difficult or lengthy learning curves, so I’m willing to put in the work for a longer term payoff in efficiency.

Well all thanks to JavaScript . The problem of the century was gone i.e missing semicolon . And still I see people put semicolon:true in eslint ... well what's the point of removing it in the first place then .

I actually do have something to rant about!

The people I've decided to work with... are complete and utter fools. They don't want to keep updated with new practices and merely talk about awesome stuff... Let me elaborate.

The first person is someone I spent really many hours just writing with, I've helped him build on his personal project, which has now become our project (which I've done most of the work on now). He keeps writing about things that aren't fucking relevant for the current task - furthermore, he completely refuses to use any type of collaboration software in order to keep an eye on tasks we want to, and already have completed. He likes Git but doesn't provide helpful git messages, sometimes even stuff like 'forgot this'.. never any freaking description of what's actually been done! Not even after agreeing it should be done, he just doesn't understand what a helpful message is apparently.
I might be a bit special regarding wanting to follow practices, but how the fuck do you make any amount of money by being so ignorant!? He was a WP 'developer' a while ago, and has since changed to JS and are using a framework which he doesn't understand - he can't even remember what the documentation states.

So why do I 'work' with him? He knows a lot of phrases he's read in books, blogs, and the likes. That makes him really inspirational and positive and he really wants to become successful(like me!). But over the last few months, I've realized how bad he is at programming - he doesn't know basic programming concepts and have a hard time applying any sort of knowledge to his programming. If it's not pre-built, he can't use it, not even if the documentation has specific examples. He barely grasps the concept of binding data to a variable. He wouldn't know how to access it again though, it's just for the sake of binding it to some existing functionality.

The other guy really likes his old style. He hired me to maintain some application. Which has turned out to be a hell of several small tasks he needs to be finished or reworked - with no clear definition of the task. Most of the time, he'll do some initial changes, show the changes to me, vaguely explain what they do (not what he's trying to achieve) and first THEN ask me to do these changes, most often in some files that don't exist (he uses the wrong filenames so I have to guess/ask where the changes need to be made).
To top it all off, old syntax is used and don't get me started on the spaces+tabs for indenting lines... Because I've already added a great ESLint+Prettier conf and everything should be nicely formatted according to pre-defined rules.
But he won't take the time to install some plugins in his editor and I'm left with sometimes buggy, badly formatted code (the code I have to make changes with!) - that's while he several times have agreed that I can do what I want and that he even questions his own ways when looking at my changes which he calls by-the-book.
So why the motherfucking fuck do I keep working with him?

Well, he keeps paying so that's really nice - I haven't been able to properly execute the bigger tasks(which pays more) though, due to a lack of information or some badly written code I couldn't quite figure out how works (at a glance).

He also keeps talking about these new projects he wants to make.. he even has these freaking papers with descriptions and data-structures and we converse really good about these new awesome projects. He also likes cryptocurrencies(which is an interest of mine he has inflamed quite a bit) and lastly, he seems like a genuinely nice guy who I'd like to spend some time with even besides coding and work.

So now I stand here - stuck with people that make me feel like a demi-god or something because I use a git style-guide and ESLint+Prettier with the Airbnb style-guide.

What should I do? I'd really like some remote work and have a desperate need for money... So much so, that I might even have to pick up a fulltime job, in order to save my sorry ass - all because I like speaking with people who just like the thought of programming...

I'm actually quite lonely with my thoughts and they are the two only people I've had some sort of relationship with - who has an invested interest in programming/dev... I really like that, despite having to follow their thoughts as they surely can't follow mine.

Please be my friend or give me some paid work lol.

Also, I've been moving the last couple weeks - those weeks has been the most stressful of my life and have not contributed to my overall wellbeing and relations with people... It's good to be back at the computer again and be reading some devRant though!

principle software developer who does not code, design, or architect,

instead, do random eslint fixes which create conflict with everyone's branches.

1 line of code "fix" per commit.

there goes 26 commits

Atom to VSCode, should I do it? I'm assuming it is Linux friendly.

Need it to lint using am eslint config.

Wish my teammates knew and used eslint / tslint in strict mode🤐

when you use ESLint and codeclimate for your running project for the first time

Is there any of you doing this?

Ugh why are Python linters so fucking focused on PEP8?

All I want is something like ESLint for Python so I can style it how *I* want.

I have the worst hobby. It is web and app development.

The Web development environment seems to be the sum of technologies that do not really have a central point. Because of this, web developers today seem to be using different technologies and not understanding each other. It's really funny. Soon they make a framework full of shit dependencies and say, "Look! This is a miracle!" I may be able to talk for hours on my head with a fucking dependency.

See a shit library that distributes with dockhub, pip, npm. The library refers to another library. WTF? I felt a lot when creating chrome extensions that can not use nodejs. This is annoying to extract purely without nodejs. It is not a pure library. It's just a good example of a dependency chain.

I realized that I was happy to do programming using only JavaScript. It is enough to provide a programmatic puzzle and to feel the joy of solving. It's a pure pleasure that can not be felt by packaging management and version control. But I think I have removed that joy with Eslint.

Yes, I am tired of constant learning about similar functions of web development.

Fuck that shit

Setting up ts linting is a pain in the ass..
Until you realize you could try to reload the window. So your settings actually pick up you know..

Twitter screenshots are not meme.

Setting up eslint is driving me nuts.
This shit never works for me.

Every two months:
I read why eslint is important to have in development workflow. I get convinced of it's benefit. I decide to give it few hours to do this correctly this time.

3-4 hours passby, still nothing. I run into problems that only I face. My vscode setup is a complete mess now. My code formatter wants one way if writing code which eslint doesn't like for some reason.

Fuck this shit.

Am I the only one?

Is it me or is ESLint just a bitch ...

I NOW OFFICIALY SAT FOR TWO DAYS TO IMPLEMENT TRAVIS CI AND ESLINT INTO MY BUILDS. FML.

We decided to use ESlint as our style guide. Then comes this guy and starts adding exceptions. Dude if you keep adding exceptions, there's no need for a guide anyways.

Biggest annoyance when working with JavaScript ?
Overconfigured ESLint.
Space here NOT allowed!
Mandatory here, forbidden there.
COME ON!

Open a file last modified by colleague ... Eslint errors everywhere 😬😬😬

Trying to update and add to my skills. Let's try angular,. Visual Studio sucks for this. Hey look vs code, this looks great.... Install, add some recommended extensions... Cool. Add eslint, hey look at these errors awesome I'm getting somewhere. WTF dont use var use let.. Ok why... Hours later and one drink, okay that makes sense. Change code.....
Unexpected declaration wtf why. Switch to var... Dont use var..... Fuck me... Google, read, google, read...... Wtf why why why won't this fucking work... I just want to code something using best practices

student: eh, eslint is only to enforce our code to be more readable to you, you're a lazy teacher!

*sigh*