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What folders do you make in addition to the default ones ? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 8 months ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I realized I always make a source folder under home and then subfolders named after programming languages to organize projects but then I realized I somehow had my own convention for how to store my source code and I have no idea where I got it from

Then I thought. what about other Linux users ?

What sorts of conventions do you have that pertains to folder structure in Linux ?

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[–] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Multiple people in this topic say they organise in directories for different programming languages, something I have never considered and I find it to be an odd way of organising for some reason I can't explain.

Where do you put a project with a Javascript frontend and a Python backend?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    for me I consider that a web project so it goes into the typescript folder, if it's backend only then python

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Why group it into language instead of say a 'web' directory or 'android'/'mobile'?

    I'm just curious, I am more of a 'throw everything in one directory and home I remember what I'm looking for' sort of organiser.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly it's a pretty good way of compartmentalizing projects in your mind.
    You usually remember pretty well what language your wrote a project in.
    And if you want to find a project again you just have to look in that language's directory.

    Second advantage is that if there's a language you only fucked around a little for fun, it doesn't clutter the directories of your most used languages.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    Since projects of the same language often use the same tooling this makes it easier to clean up the whole directory by running something like this:

    for d in ./*/ ; do (cd "$d" && somecommand); done

    somecommand could be cargo clean if you're in the Rust directory for example.

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