@eleven_ty micro tip: Give eleventy some credit by injecting a "generator" meta tag in your HTML! π₯
Frontpage and Dreamweaver used to get credit this way, why shouldn't we give Eleventy some credit too? π
(a short thread in 3 steps π)
STEP 1. Create a data file in `_data/site.js` with the following content:
STEP 2. Create your base layout `_includes/layout.njk` and use the variable `{{ site.generator }}`:
STEP 3. Just the use the base layout in your templates:
Now, if you happen to update eleventy to a new version, the generator tag will automatically be updated accordingly (note we are reading the version from eleventy's own `package.json` file).
That's it π
BONUS: If you like eleventy. check out this article I wrote about generating sitemaps with eleventy: dev.to/loige/create-aβ¦
Since it's also my first article on Dev, please upvote it, share it and follow me π
How many times did you have to store settings (creds & other preferences)? Where do you save the conf file? Which format do you use? How do you load and update the file?
Conf takes care of all of this (and more!) with an extremely simple API
"Yo, why are #JavaScript and its ecosystem so messy?!" π‘
Well, I am glad you asked... Let me tell you a story! π€
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For starting... #JavaScript was not designed to be the language that it is today!
JS was created in 1995 by @BrendanEich for Netscape, a web browser that was trying to come up with a language to make the web more interactive
@BrendanEich#JS wasn't related w/ #Java, so why did they call it Java-Script?! Duh! π³
Java was trendy! it was possible to build interactive sites by embedding Java apps in pages (applets). So it was mostly a #mktg move: "JS: the lightweight Java alternative" or something like that I guess
This is easy and it works! But the implementation is very specific to our struct.
The rest of the codebase doesn't really know that this type can be converted to a String and therefore you cannot build abstractions on top of this... π€¨
1οΈβ£Β You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.
2οΈβ£ Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.
Software engineering #anxiety, let's talk about it. Specifically, let me try to deconstruct my personal anxiety
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1οΈβ£ classic impostor syndrome: it doesn't matter how good I actually am with some technology/tool/technique. Even if I can get the job done, it still feels far from adequate and I feel like I have to rush to get better to defend my job title & credibility...
2οΈβ£ future tech gamble: tech is always changing and I need to be ready for the next big thing if I want to stay relevant in the market. But what is the next big thing? I don't know, of course, so I try to check out as many things as I can and often end up feeling overwhelmed! π€―