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good practices

code

• Commenting and Documentation
• Consistent Indentation
• Avoid Obvious Comments
• Code Grouping
• Consistent Naming Scheme
  • camelCase
  • under_scores
• DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) or DIE (Duplication is Evil) principle
• KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
• YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It)
• SOC (Separation of Concerns)
• Avoid Deep Nesting
• Handling errors
• Limit Line Length
• File and Folder Organization
• Consistent Temporary Names
• Separation of Code and Data
• Code Refactoring

Go

• Go
• gofmt
• goimports
• foimports vs gofmt

CSS

• CSS

Dockerfile

• Dockerfile

Time Limitation

• Every computing programs should execute in a time limit of 5 minutes.

Game performance

Performance is essential, so that's why you have to aim for less than 16.7ms(1000ms/60f), because in 16.7ms the browsers job and your work must be completed in each frame.

Use requestAnimationFrame to sync your changes

• You can try to reuse memory to avoid jank when the garbage collector pass

Jank animation can be caused by loading too much information, for instance:

• JavaScript
• Styles that considers which style apply to which element
• Layout that calculates the geometry of the pages (example: recalculating the width and height of a page)
• Painting, normally when layout is triggered we must repaint. Repainting an element every time it animates
• Compositing that consists on placing the pages together at the end

In order to improve performance we must remove the causes above, that are more costly: layout and painting.

The best way to remove layout and painting is to use transform and opacity

Removing layout can be done using transform:

// bad
// this will trigger the layout to recalculate everything and repaint it again
box.style.left = `${x * 100}px`;

// good
// this way its possible to lose the layout
box.style.transform = `translateX(${x * 100}px)`;

It is possible to remove painting by adding a layer:

/* this will take care of the painting by creating a layer and transform it*/
  #box {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
    ....
    will-change: transform;
  }

By creating a new layer you can remove painting, but "there is always a tradeoff". If we add to much layers it will increase the composition and update tree. In conclusion you must promote a new layer only if you know you are going to use it. Performance is the key to a good animation. "Performance is the art of avoiding work".

UI/UX

• Best Practices