The epitome of software development
Here is my premise and how I got on the topic: 1) SourceTree for Windows is awful and should be open-sourced, trying to copy code causes it to freeze. 2) Developing in Angular is not GREAT! like everyone pretends. 3) Webpack, Webstorm, angular-cli, SourceTree, gulp-watch, karma; STOP TOUCHING MY FILES! 4) GitHub is OK, but wouldn't it be nice if I could use some of GitHubs features locally without waiting for uploads or muddying repos just to get a diff?
I thought it might be a fun exercise to combine a "diff" with a "syntax highlighter"; to have a slightly better than GitHub diff that is colored.
Software development is awful. You might think that sounds like an easy task, what maybe 100 lines of code and some libs? WRONG.
PrismJS looks really cool, a nice modern marketing site. Exciting documentation, and more colors than Nyan cat! :D
npm's diff is awesome, shows me all the line differences, you can also do a character comparison, words, or entire lines. Why not combine the two? GitHubs syntax highlighter only shows keywords, using these tools I could almost recreate the most important part of an IDE in less than 100 lines of code.
This is not the case. PrismJS doesn't fully support Node and then I realized, I face these kinds of problems EVERY DAY. I sit down with a task thinking it will take 3 hours, and suddenly because of some design decision it turns in to a 40 hours investigation reading every single line of some library's code just to solve one little problem.
So, I'll abandon the code until further notice or I find the time to dig deeper in to every nuanced API involved in the library.
^- Just like everyone else ;)