alt Hacker NewsI checked the repository and it has >20 config files, just for a simple tool, something is terribly in todays development
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osener • today at 9:20 AM
This is some next level nitpicking. It's like criticizing XCode or Idea config of someone, instead of their product (or more popularly whether their website hijacks the back button). But at least in this case the dev config is checked in and reproducible.
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Fair point. The root directory can be seen noisy right now. There are two main reasons for that:
1. Cross-platform distribution: Shipping an Electron app across macOS (ARM/Intel), Linux (AppImage/deb/rpm), Windows, and maintaining a standalone Docker/Node server just requires a lot of platform-specific build configs and overrides (especially for electron-builder).
2. Agentic coding guardrails: As I built most of this project using Claude Code itself, I wanted strict boundaries when it writes code
The ESLint, Prettier, strict TS, Knip (dead code detection), and Vitest configs act as quality gates. They are what keep the AI's output from drifting into unmaintainable spaghetti code. Without those strict constraints, agentic coding falls apart fast.
I'd rather have 20 config files enforcing quality than a clean root directory with an AI running wild. That said, I totally take your point—I should probably consolidate some of these into package.json to clean things up.