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riffraff on Oct 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make

> Whether using Sublime, Visual Studio, or Vim with Nerd Tree, a lot of time is spent scrolling through the directory tree.

There might be a lot of reasons to use dir-by-feature or dir-by-function but if the above is a problem you should probably get a better editor.

EDIT: or use yours better.

shangxiao on Oct 3, 2014 [–]

I actually close my file browser "side bar" in Sublime and just open files with the "Goto" command (⌘ P). With strict naming conventions I find this to be quicker than navigating a file browser.

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