Jeff Delaney avatar Jeff Delaney

WTF are all these config files for?

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Every JavaScript project has a collection of config files to control the behavior of tools like Prettier, ESLint, Typescript, Vite, Tailwind, Post CSS, and more. Let's take a comprehensive tour of the web development tooling ecosystem.

Is it really fun, or just frustrating?

I wish Jeff didn't say "CSS by itself is too painful", though… 😔


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    Charity Majors avatar Charity Majors

    Fulfilling the promise of CI/CD

    This may surprise you, but continuous deployment is far and away the easiest way to write, ship, and run code in production. This is the counterintuitive truth about software: making lots of little changes swiftly is infinitely easier than making a few bulky changes slowly.