Show HN: JavaScript linter for keeping files small and modular

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1 pointthreedliams5 comments

> your files must be wider than they are long

I don't understand why this is good or bad, can you please elaborate why this is a useful rule to follow?

Yeah totally fair question! For me it was motivated from seeing too many bloated, multi-use classes and files in enterprise codebases.

Keeping the file wider than it is long is a simple heuristic to make sure files don't grow out of their original scope and are instead split up based on separation of concerns, without just picking some arbitrary line number.

why that name

Do you find it inaccurate?

i only know the urbandictionary term for `chode`. perhaps the joke is going over my head

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