Code Styles × Readable Rules and Petty Preferences

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If you're just defining, like, a top level function, not a method or ever, do you do what's called a named function? You write the word function and then the name of it, Open up parentheses, Function definitions How How you doing today, Scott? I'm doing good. Just hanging out, Q and a. Quality oh, you know? No. QA.

rid Function definition. There's many ways to define a function in JavaScript. Probably the 2 most popular ones are

open up curly brackets, or do you do, which is, rid. Generally, you try to side with more readable code over being a hotshot.

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You're right. Yeah. Q and a. Buddy. Questions and answers. I know. I always say q and a. And then just as I was about to say that, I was like, wait a second. It might not actually be q and a.

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so many things pop up rid. After you're feeling like, alright. I'm ready to go. Yeah. And then your to do list has gotten down to, like, 4 more things left, and then now it's populated like rid Crazy again. So Totally. I I much prefer those like, a person that you've asked to do it than someone, like, being like, hey. Like, what's up with this rid Tweeting a screenshot

rid. Go through and find all these things, but, like, it's also super depressing to see

first, a petty preferences,

rid Good one for you. We kinda put 2 shows together. We had this idea of,

and as well as, like, why we prefer that,

over an arrow function in a variable, and there's some real reasoning behind that. So Scott and I are gonna go through a list of probably Twenty different things, and we're gonna say what we prefer

So we are sponsored by 3 awesome companies today, rid. Linode cloud computing developers trust

show, which is just things, tabs, and spaces and whatnot, and we'll talk about all of that. But then there's also, like, a lot of stuff which is like, I actually prefer over sticking in a variable. I've never felt good about that. What about you? Yeah. I'm pretty much the same way. However,

there has been a a recent kind of I will say that there I mean, I would maybe not pretty much the same way. I'm exactly the same way. However,

So in in TypeScript,

Much more easily

way. Even if you're not using an arrow function, if you're saying const do something is equal to Function do something. You can like, if you're assigning a function to a variable, thing that's popped up in my code base, which I wonder if you've noticed this.

as a type, this week. Rid Oh, wow. I'm just in Berserker mode here. Just you know? We we have a a friend of mine doing q and a for us. Is it q and a or QA?

using the const do something really great to just have somebody, We have a friend of Doing QA for us and,

and then

You can define the inputs, the outputs, like everything about a function it's, simultaneously

assign it to the function Yeah. I know. It's it's so hard to find everything, you know, especially on a large project. So, rid. Yeah. That's where I'm at. I if I sound exhausted, it's

I always prefer the first, which is a named function, like, there's certainly, arrow functions have their use, and I'm not,

pooh poohing them at all. I use them all day long. But When you are defining a regular ass function, or whatever. That always happens. It's like you I worked, like, 8 months to launch a course, and then, like, the first reply is, I think it's Broken, and there's, like, something, like, weird.

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Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. Today, we've got, rid. The name of the function is equal to, and you do a little arrow function

I'm a little exhausted, I gotta say. Yeah. Alright. Well, let's, let's get on into it. First one is