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What do you call your folder where you keep your code?

Nočnica Mellifera on June 21, 2020

On each new PC I make a folder named after some version of the afterlife: 'xibalba,' 'elysium,' 'outerdark.' And that's where I keep all my code. I assume everyone does this? And I'm curious where you keep your code on your own PC.

Constantine • Jun 21 '20

That's interesting 😄

Mine is simple ~/projects for all my.. well, projects. And inside are dirs by technology for personal stuff, e.g. python/, react/, etc. And %company_name%/ for full-time job projects.

Emmy | Pixi • Jun 21 '20

I'm boring/lazy. Mines literally just "Code" and it's a top level directory so I can just cd code and find what I need haha

Nočnica Mellifera Heroku • Jun 23 '20

This makes more sense than the people calling it “github”

Emmy | Pixi • Jun 23 '20

Is that a thing people do!?

Nočnica Mellifera Heroku • Jun 23 '20

on here and on Twitter it is, I think, the most common answer

Subramanya Chakravarthy • Jun 21 '20

Me too

dinos • Jun 22 '20

Same here!

Carlos Manique Silva • Jun 21 '20 • Edited

I use variants of ~/_git/repo_domain/repo_group/repo_name depending on the hosting.
Allows me to quickly browse stuff that is either local, github, gitlab, etc...

Anything related to software tools I keep in ~/work/tools, organised in concept, vendor, tool, version (ie: ide/jetbrains/intellij/20201).

Project related stuff like documents, assets I keep in variants of ~/work/projects/customer_name/initiative/project

Many people place code together with projects, but having separate folders is useful to avoid long paths, and I get a clear ideia of what's transient and versioned or not.

Amohammadi2 • Sep 24 '21

Nice 👍

Alain D'Ettorre • Jun 25 '20

.
|---dev
    |---projects
        |---my-cool-website
        |---a-fun-side-project
        |---my-company-stuff
    |---learn
        |---react
        |---angular
        |---whatever-youre-learning

Eka • Jun 21 '20

I'm a bit obsessive-compulsive when it comes to organizing my files (either it has be consistent OR I'd leave it completely messy). After trying complex structures, now under the default Mac OS Documents, I just have:

_Work --> has subdirectories for Day Job and each paid side project
Foo --> all non-paid/personal coding projects go here
Bar
Baz

Last two directories will be for non-code personal projects but currently they are empty. I recently changed laptop (~3 months ago); my old projects are in my external HDD.

ItsASine (Kayla) • Jun 22 '20

Echoing love for ~/dev. It's short enough that it's easy to get to my files, though I am liking some of the organizing in this thread. ~/dev is a mix of Github, GitLab, and local on my Mac which is a tad unwieldy, especially when most of those haven't been touched in ages. My current Chromebook's ~/dev at least is pretty clean since it's new.

Jacob Colborn • Jun 25 '20

I keep all my projects in ~/code/, breaking down each project into its own directory. I don't have my first customer yet, but when I do I'll have a directory in the code directory called customers and store that data in each customers own directory.

I save creative names for my hostnames. Each host in my network is named after a Norse god.

Ben Klein • Jun 24 '20

workspaces

Then I have a workspace for the projects of my job (i22), one for hobby projects (personal), one for experiments (lab) and one when cloning foreign open source projects (external).

Peyton McGinnis • Jun 21 '20

~/dev/<language>/<project> for local projects,

~/dev/git/<project> for projects on GitHub

Rohit Shetty • Jun 22 '20

I have a ~/dev where all my projects reside.
Inside I've subfolders for work and personal projects. Work is further divided into client-name folders.

The client-name folder is the home for that particular client and all their projects reside here.

I've resources and notes inside each client-name. resources contains well, any resources (AWS/Azure stuff, any documentation, or any resources) and notes contains timestamped txt file with my thoughts working on the project at the moment. It helps me visit back and see my thoughts few days down the feature/task. I use VSCode project manager so switching between projects/ clients is easy too.

Nenba Jonathan • Jun 21 '20

i use this pattern
~/workspace/<project>/src

Elliot Derhay • Jun 22 '20

On my work laptop, it's on a secondary storage drive. So it's like this:

Z:\projects\<project-name>

Of course I'm on Windows and need them accessible via stuff like FileZilla and Explorer, otherwise I'd probably have them all in WSL directly. 🤷‍♂️

Niko Heikkilä • Jun 21 '20

Mine follows this pattern:

~/src/<gitserver>/<owner>/<repository>

Example:

~/src/github.com/nikoheikkila/cv

Mostly I use z to jump to correct directory by repo name which is neatly supported by this.

Leon Lafayette • Jun 21 '20

Be prepared to be underwhelmed.

I name my folder... dev/ 😀

Christian Guevara • Jun 23 '20 • Edited

I call it Developer, so I get a nice icon :)

The internal structure is:

~/Developer/%company%/%project%/

If the project is not part of a company or just for fun, it goes directly to ~/Developer root.

Nir Lanka ニル • Jun 22 '20

~/Dev
It matches other folder names in ~.

Yuriy Markov • Jun 22 '20

Mine is ~/repo 😁
As a second level I'm using a customer name.
Finally, a project name.
Something like this pattern:
~/repo/customer/project

Jake Wesorick • Jun 22 '20

~/src/

Amohammadi2 • Sep 24 '21

I use this pattern ~/src/{project_name}/...

I can quickly jump into my terminal and type "$ code ~/src/proj + tab" and start coding.

narsing itkampalli • Sep 5 '24

In my case I use ~/Development/ folder. I also pinned to Quick access. Changed icon of the folder to make it more personal.

Development/
├── learning/
│   ├── DSA/
│   ├── web/
│   │   ├── css/
│   │   ├── html/
│   │   ├── http/
│   │   ├── javascript/
│   │   ├── mysql/
│   │   ├── node-js/
│   │   ├── react-js/
│   │   │   ├── learn-hooks/
│   │   │   ├── react-router/
│   │   │   └── todo-app/
│   │   └── websocket/
│   └── web-apps/ (Usually used to build big projects but for learning purposes)
│
├── projects/ (These are usually my personal projects)
│
└── client/ (For client work, I create a separate folder)
    └── client-name/
        ├── project-name/
        └── project-name/

NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡ • Jun 21 '20

Just gits :)

Obed Osei Frimpong • Jun 22 '20

~/development

Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴 • Jun 23 '20

I've always gone with ~/projects/

Henry Williams • Jun 23 '20 • Edited

Mine is ~/projects. Gotta keep it simple.

Jared Fraser • Jun 22 '20 • Edited

~/dev for open source stuff i'm contributing to. ~/mod for personal projects (based on my username). When i'm working for a company i'll make a 3 letter folder for them too (~/mas, ~/amc etc)

Dave Jacoby • Jun 22 '20

In general, ~/dev, because I'm not generally inclined to use my originality on directory names.

Kyle Boe • Jun 21 '20

I use this pattern:

~/<version control host>/<repo name>

This looks like:

~/github/railsdock

Thibaut Rousseau • Jun 22 '20 • Edited

I use ~/workspace.
And I usually declare a ws alias which simply does cd ~/workspace.

Gabe Dunn • Jun 22 '20

For most projects I stick with the default ~/WebstormProjects, but if it's not created by WebStorm and I don't plan on using WebStorm for the project it goes into ~/code.

Farhan Hasin Chowdhury • Jun 22 '20

~/repos/<language or framework>/project

István Lantos • Jun 22 '20

.\www

Jennifer Tran • Jun 22 '20

I call mine Code 👀 I like to keep it simple

Sam E. Lawrence • Jun 24 '20

~/src/

PremJeet • Jun 21 '20

Git_repo and then obviously there are sub directories d3,p5 etc 👨‍💻

John Wright • Jun 21 '20

Code

Adailton do nascimento • Jun 22 '20

I use workspace/ and inside it projects/ works/ and limbo/

Matt Searles • Jun 22 '20

/src/{client}/{project}

Simple but effective

Abimael Martell • Jun 22 '20

Mine is ~/Code, and i usually organize projects by company.

Galuh Utama • Jun 22 '20

~/Workspace

Ashley Sheridan • Jun 22 '20

It depends, if they're CLI apps then they go in ~/bin, if they're websites then whatever the default www root is (/var/www/html on Fedora).

jpetrzilka • Jun 22 '20

c:\src

Lorenzo • Jun 22 '20

Just ~/code

Franko • Jun 22 '20 • Edited

{type}/projectname
type={React,ReactNative,Flutter,NodeJS,Electron etc}

Medam Mahesh • Jun 22 '20

I do not do anything fancy.
I separated them into two directories Freelance, Git. I name the folders inside them self-explanatory.

Ricardo Münch • Jun 22 '20

_projects/ ✨

Rahul lad • Jun 23 '20

Mine is ~/codes for work projects and ~/exp for personal experiments

kartik puri • Jun 23 '20

Mine is
~/workspace/tutorials/{tutorial name}
~/workspace/project/{python or javascript or vuejs}
~/workspace/freelance/{client-name}
~/workspace/tutorials/graphics/{asset name}