Best practices

Should we trust "best practices"? A take on dogmatism in the development industry.

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1. Hello
   

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3. Is there a
   great divide?
   

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4. styling
   data
   a11y
   perf
   

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5. Different jobs ?
   

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6. styling
   data
   a11y
   perf
   Every company has
   its own definition
   

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7. JS-JS-JS
   vs
   HTML-CSS-JS
   

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8. Different
   belief system
   

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9. Best practices
   

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10. Separation of
    concerns
    

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11. SEPARATION OF CONCERNS
    Is the separation
    worth it now ?
    

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12. SEPARATION OF CONCERNS
    CSS-in-JS
    

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13. SEPARATION OF CONCERNS
    

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14. SEPARATION OF CONCERNS
    

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15. SPAs
    

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16. Semantic tags
    

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17. ARIA
    

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18. DRY
    

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19. KISS
    

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20. a.map(f).map(g)
    vs
    a.map(x !=> g(f(x))
    KISS
    

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21. YAGNI
    

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22. Don't reinvent
    the wheel
    

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23. DON'T REINVENT THE WHEEL
    Reinventing
    isn't bad
    

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24. YAGNI
    Owning your code
    can be good
    

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25. Organise your files this way
    Make smart and dumb components
    Use redux with ducks
    Write tests first
    You must respect HTTP verbs
    Premature optimisation is root the root of all evil
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26. And there's
    some truth
    to all of them
    

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27. but …
    

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28. they are not
    necessarily accurate
    for your context
    

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29. Your postulate
    might be different
    

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30. Reassess over time
    

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31. Best doesn't
    mean forever
    

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32. Best doesn't
    mean forever
    

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34. Thank you
    

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35. Matthias Le Brun
    @bloodyowl
    Questions ?
    

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