Coding Automation Lesson #1: Please Be Lazy
summary
Includes concrete automation: config files for ESLint and Prettier, JSON templates for VS Code snippets, building a small custom CLI that scaffolds components and edits existing files, and git hooks plus CI steps to run tests and autoformat. Mentions alternatives like Rome and JSHint, visual regression with Chromatic/Storybook, fake-data generation with Faker, and using Copilot/ChatGPT plus Notion for a personal code database. Watch if needing copyable configs and demos.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to automation
- 2:31Why automation matters
- 3:16Boilerplate snippets and linters
- 10:04Code standards and linters
- 11:51Code snippets
- 16:09Custom CLI tools
- 21:14Git hooks for validation
- 24:29AI in coding automation
- 29:47Documenting solutions
- 36:12Summary
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