YOU Are Invited

Yes, you!

cause célèbre

Let's talk about streams…

Be very afraid.

"I know! I'll run ESLint!"

So this is for all my Lint Peeps out there.

Lint Peeps: I love you.

But you gotta stop doing this.

Sam the Eagle does not approve.

(You didn't know the look-of-disapproval emoticon was supposed to be Sam the Eagle, did you? That's the type of science I'm dropping here tonight. Go ahead and tweet about it. It's tweet-worthy.)

Here's the thing:

Node already has a linter.

We're not going to change the thousands of instances of `==` throughout the code to `===` just because Douglas Crockford thinks everyone should do that.

By the way, Douglas Crockford is right, but that's not the point.

There are actually good reasons not to make those kinds of wholesale changes on a sprawling code base upon which an inconceivably large software ecosystem depends.

About your moxie…

Tests!

Why tests?

You don't have to conform to the prevailing norms nearly as much as you might otherwise.

You can feel free to be your unconventional self like Lew Zealand here with his boomerang fish.

You can concentrate on learning the system and not learning coding conventions.

Maintain the existing style in a file and make sure nothing complains when you type "make jslint" and you should be good to go.

Prefer function expressions over function delcarations, or vice versa?

Sure, whatevs! I mean, who even understands what I just asked?

I don't!

It's a bit ironic, incidentally, that tests--the code you write to make sure there's no loosey-goosey funny business anywhere else in the code--let you be all loosey goosey with your style.

What can I say. The world is a magical place.

♥ Fat Arrows! ♥

Start With Tests...

...but now what?

assert.fail('do not do this');

Thank You

Rich Trott

@trott

Bonus tracks!

Wat?!?!?!

I know!

npm install -g stackwatch

https://github.com/nodejs/help/issues

https://nodeschool.io/