sloc VS Blitz

With long functions normally there comes large files as well. People tend to put everything into one file if they also put a lot into one function. So in theory we could take the lines of code as a measurement as well. There are a lot of utility packages out there that solve this problem. One of these tools is called sloc. It will output the number of lines of code within a file. But do not use it directly. The tool I mentioned before includes this by default.

The title of the stackexchange discussion is a little misleading. It really is: '"Hello, World" in what sloc thinks is zero lines of source code'

Most of the top solutions seem to take advantage of bugs in the way sloc tries to parse commented lines. e.g. many are ////

And I'm surprised I don't see a related bug issue in the git repo: https://github.com/flosse/sloc/issues

Still this is a fun read. I'm curious to see what other tricks are out there.

Blitz is also an open-source project that allows users to access the code and allows to contribute. Their community has generated a lot of impact as well, and has grown rapidly over time since the creation in 2020:

Not yet, I actually just whipped it up quickly last week after I was browsing the Notion subreddit and it reminded me of myspace.

These are the tools I used:

* BlitzJS (https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz)

Maybe you could help/join this project? https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz

Hello, I'm the creator of Blitz.js (first announced 2.5 years ago)

Today the Blitz.js 2.0 pivot to a modular Next.js toolkit reached Beta status [1]

Previously Blitz abstracted Next.js, but Blitz 2.0 is now a modular toolkit that plugs into any new or existing Next.js app. Blitz picks up where Next.js leaves off, providing libraries and conventions for shipping and scaling small to large apps.

When I first created Blitz, my aim was to have an all-in-one fullstack framework for Javascript like Ruby on Rails. But that proved to be too difficult. I've decided that achieving an all-in-one framework for JS like Rails is too difficult unless you have a ton of funding and don't have to make meaningful money.

The difference with JS is that client-side frameworks like React have an incredible amount of complexity. Trying to manage all of that and all the other fullstack framework stuff like API layers, auth, file uploads, etc is too large of scope.

So now Blitz is no longer trying to do it all and is focusing on all the non-frontend functionality you need to ship web apps.

Going forward, we want to be the most trusted technical resource for rapidly building and scaling full-stack TypeScript apps.

[1] https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.1