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Discussion on: Why Are Some Developers so Allergic to IDEs?

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Alex Fedorov

I agree so much with your comment.

What should I do if I disagree with the best tool for some of the jobs?

For example, doing JS/TS for web frontend projects is much better and more efficient in IntelliJ/Webstorm. But you have to break community guidelines concerning the import structure because you don’t manually manage imports/exports anymore and you let the tool do it for you (just like in Java/Kotlin, imports just happen automatically).

I mean, I really cringe when I see people crafting their export * from './somefile.js' inside of index.js inside of the package directory, so that it is available under a cute import, that will be easier to manage manually later.

Time wasting.

I don’t have to spend time on that whatsoever. Just create a bunch of JS files grouped into package/directories and never use export .. from .. construct, and never use default export.

That is of course when I write apps. With libraries the story is different.