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I Fell in Love With My Code, Then I Had to Kill It
- The author shares their experience of deleting hundreds of lines of code they wrote for a feature for TheOpenPresenter in favor of new code for audio indication.
- The feature for audio indication required accessing data from multiple plugins, each with its own schema.
- The author decided to abstract this data access into a SceneState object, allowing plugins to register a callback function that returns the state.
- Since this is handled on the server, the function must be provided to the frontend, which was implemented using GraphQL and Postgraphile.
- The author originally had a solution that listened to every small change, but eventually came up with a better method using reserved properties.
- The cost of this change was having to delete hundreds of lines of code they had worked on for a long time.
- The lesson learned is to find the simplest solution first, but not to be afraid to throw code away if a better solution is found.
- TheOpenPresenter is an open-source presentation system that lets you control any of your screens remotely and is stable enough to use regularly.
- The author personally uses it for meetups every week and encourages readers to try it out.
- If you have any questions or want to report issues, you can ask or submit them to the Github repo.
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