Sooooo yeaaaa…
i did the thing everyone says not to do…
i put basically the entire app into one file.
At the time it felt efficient. One file, everything in one place, nothing can get lost.
Nothing did get lost because it was all buried in the same 3000+ lines of code.
It started out fine. Just a few components, a little logic, nothing super scary!
And then it slowly turned into this… creature.
At some point opening the file became an experience (and not a good one!)
Like:
- scroll
- scroll
- scroll
- oh cool im still scrolling
- where am i
- what is this function
- who wrote this
(it was me)
Fixing anything turned into a gamble:
Change one thing → something else breaks
Fix that → something else breaks
fFx that → the original thing breaks again
An incredible system if i do say so myself lol
Well, now im undoing my own decisions which somehow feels harder than building it in the first place.
Everything is connected to everything else, like past me designed it specifically to hurt future me later.
Right now:
- journal system works (don’t ask how)
- daily pages are mostly stable
- pencil mode is… participating
Im splitting everything into:
- actual components
- files that make sense
- code that doesn’t require emotional preparation to open
Ironically is this app is supposed to feel calm.
Like something you open when your brain is overwhelmed, and meanwhile i open the code and immediately need a break.
Dont get me wrong, its still a mess.
Just no longer one single, massive, terrifying mess
Ill take that as win!
