Previous efforts

[pi0]

Note

Here is a collection of inspirations collected from different sources.

See .config dir support tracker for a list of tools and config loaders that support .config/ dir or might do.

How it started

A few months ago, I was inspired by seeing tweet by @danawoodman about this problem a few months ago and while he was convinced settled to use file nesting, the real problem still exists with actual files not being organized. Finally, when I was dealing with this problem again when building a minimal documentation tool, I decided to push it again!

Relavant

Media

• https://twitter.com/iansu/status/1126512410313891841 by @iansu
• https://twitter.com/DanaWoodman/status/1699134345196495182 by @danawoodman
• https://twitter.com/_pi0_/status/1757383840270532894
• https://twitter.com/_pi0_/status/1757418709574939058
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYdnJPYFTIE by @t3dotgg

XDG Spec

XDG uses ~/.config as a standard dir (while it allows to be overridden, it may not be feasible for this proposal: discussion).

dot-config

(thanks @webpro for reference)

dot-config is a previous effort to push the .config/ idea by @ssbarnea.

proload

(thanks @webpro for reference)

preload by @natemoo-re is another configuration loader that supports config/ dir. (see alternative directory names discussion.)

There is an open issue proposing to also support .config directory.

Discussions in nodejs/tooling

(thanks @webpro for reference)

• Recommendation for tooling config file location/format nodejs/tooling#71 (by @vjpr)
• the creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories nodejs/tooling#79 (by @boneskull)

Deno

(thanks to @t3dotgg for reference)

@lambtron in an Article mentioned about all the pain about current configuration files and the value of having best defaults that work out of the box.

[webpro]

Nice initiative! More related resources:

• https://dot-config.github.io/
• the creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories nodejs/tooling#79
• https://github.com/natemoo-re/proload

[danawoodman]

woah i'm famous! 🕺🪩

PS I wasn't "convinced" I settled for it 😂

[nicolehollant]

Love this!! I threw together a silly package to let me (sorta) use a config dir a while back, it just lets you create/destroy symlinks for stuff, but it's something ig: https://github.com/nicolehollant/move-stuff 😅