gerritplehn / interactive-sort

Node Typescript Boilerplate

What's inside

• Typescript
• Prettier
• ESLint
• VS Code launch script
• lint-staged
• husky

Typescript

Targeting Node 18 as a target runtime as it's the latest LTS version at the time of writing and both AWS as well as Vercel support it now.

Prettier

Used for automatic formatting. Can be run manually via hotkey in VS Code. Is run automatically before git commits (with husky and lint-staged).

ESLint

Advanced linting to prevent common errors.

VS Code launch script

Useful for easily running the debugger. Automatically loads environment variables from the .env file.

interactive-sort's Issues

Equal items aren't properly handled

When two items are being selected as equal in a prompt, the program still asks unnecessary questions afterwards.
In the case of 669580c with the options ['Pizza', 'Pasta', 'Kebab'] the user gets asked which of ['Pizza', 'Pasta'] is better in prompt #1.

If the user answers Equal, prompt #2 is for ['Pasta', 'Kebab'].

Regardless of the answer, prompt #3 for ['Kebab','Pizza'] is shown, which can lead to conflicting results.

As an example, assume we picked Pasta > Kebab in prompt #2

a = score(Pizza)
b = score(Pasta)
c = score(Kebab)

Prompt #1
a = b

Prompt #2
b > c

=> a > c

At this point we know that a MUST be better than c, however prompt #3 gives us the option to override this.