https://4nm.us/tags/lombok/ Recent posts in Lombok from fournm Hugo en-us Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:45:45 -0800 https://4nm.us/posts/2017-lombok-and-modern-js/ Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:45:45 -0800 https://4nm.us/posts/2017-lombok-and-modern-js/ programming java javascript webpack lombok <p>So, I started using a few new-to-me technologies and thought I&rsquo;d write a bit about my experiences with them so far.</p> <p>First up, we have the Lombok library for Java. Lombok is, in short, a decimator of boilerplate in Java through some annotation based magic. You can annotate your boring data objects with <code>@Data</code> and no longer need to worry about writing required args constructors, getters, setters, hashCode, equals, or toString methods. Each of those can also be done individually, as well, giving a lot of flexibility. I was playing around with it on a project that was starting to get a little too repetitive and was thoroughly impressed by the amount of mental garbage I was able to remove from most model objects. Lombok checks the strings that you use to configure those properties against the fields on the class automatically, giving warnings and errors as necessary&ndash;none of the standard stringly typed weaknesses here that make you give up help from your compiler.</p> More ...