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		seph-reed on May 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Happiness is a freshly organized codebase Utility - few or no dependencies. Absolutely no dependencies specific to the project. (array flattener, 2-way map, etc) Helper - function which makes some really common project specific code more DRY (createApiError, genCommonConfig, etc)

ravenstine on May 7, 2020 [–]

I'd also consider a Helper to be something that may have application-awareness. Whereas, as you stated, a Utility would have no serious dependencies and is otherwise "dumb".

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