briefcase's top-level .gitignore ignores node_modules, so I never noticed that
it was missing from my boilerplate .gitignore. I don't *really* need to add it
to that .gitignore, but if I want to cleanly eject directories from this
monorepo, it makes sense to keep the .gitignore files local to each project.
Problem:
Prettier was not running when I saved Emacs buffers.
Why?
- prettier-js-mode needs needs node; lorri exposes node to direnv; direnv
exposes node to Emacs; lorri was not working as expected.
Solution:
Now that I'm using nix-buffer, I can properly expose node (and other
dependencies) to my Emacs buffers. Now Prettier is working.
Commentary:
Since prettier hadn't worked for so long, I stopped thinking about it. As such,
I did not include it as a dependency in boilerplate/typescript. I added it
now. I retroactively ran prettier across a few of my frontend projects to unify
the code styling.
I may need to run...
```shell
$ cd ~/briefcase
$ nix-shell
$ npx prettier --list-different "**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx,html,css,json}"
```
...to see which files I should have formatted.
Lorri does not cleanly integrate with my corporate device, which cannot run
NixOS. To expose dependencies to Emacs buffers, I will use nix-buffer.el, which
reads its values from dir-locals.nix. To easily expose dependencies from my
existing shell.nix files into dir-locals.nix, I wrote a Nix utility function.
By default Parcel prefixes output paths with /. So when Chrome loads
wpcarro.dev/goals it attempts to get the CSS and JS and other assets from
wpcarro.dev/ instead of wpcarro.dev/goals/. Using the --public-url ./ option
makes Parcel output relative paths, which should work better for my needs.
After deploying the version of this application that built everything in the
browser, which originally was the impetus for the entire project, I learned that
the babel in-browser transformer won't work. I'm not sure why, but I need to
move on from this project and do other work.
I ported the code to my boilerplate/typescript, which works. Wahoo!
