Stop Agonising Over Tiny Details

I recently started a new side project using React and - having not used React in anger before - wanted to get off on the right foot.

And by “on the right foot” I apparently decided that I meant “with the perfect folder structure for my code”.

Obviously we can all agree that folder structure is the most important predictor of code quality  () so I spent hours agonising over whether to separate  components from screens or whether to group all actions together in an actions folder and a hundred other basically-irrelevant details. I read blog posts. I tried template project generators. I poured over a huge number of “sample” GitHub repos (every one different, of course).

To reiterate: this was for a new, greenfield side project. I spent hours of my limited time worrying about where to put all the code instead of…writing any of that code!

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Hence this post. This post sits here as a reminder to myself to STOP AGONISING OVER UNIMPORTANT THINGS.

And you know what? I changed the entire structure after a week anyway.