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Break it up! Improving Your Godot Code Using Components (nishchalb.github.io)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's a tutorial I wrote on using components to help keep your code organized.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Why are people still using string references? Like in the case of "Bumpable" - this could be a class name and reference could be via the class name instead of checking the mode name by string. String references are super dangerous, as you will get a potential error only at runtime if you make a typo, IDE can't help you. Don't get me wrong - I like the idea behind component pattern and I use it myself sometimes, but the execution could be better in my opinion, unless I'm missing some obvious reasons for doing it this way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That would definitely be an improvement, using classes is probably more robust. In my case, the project wasn't too huge and it was solo, so I never hit issues with string references.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's a good practice to adhere to proper design patterns even on smaller projects. I also work solo on small projects :). It doesn't really cost you anything to work with classes, it'd even say it's easier once you get a hang of it

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