Clean Code Concepts

Clean code is an important concept in when developing and maintaining code as developers will need to code to a high standard whilst usually coding in a team which requires code readability and good organisation.

Making your code cleaner will help A LOT.

Best Practices

Coding best practices are a set of informal rules that the software development community has learned over time which can help improve the quality of software.

For best practices, software quality has to be considered, such as:

Maintainability
Depedability
Efficiency
Usability

Taking the above bullet points into consideration, projects will become more efficient and will be able to be re-used and the users will like it.

Best Practices Example

Code Refactoring

Code Refactoring is the process of restructuring existing computer code, changing the factoring, without changing its behaviour. It is intended to improve the nonfunctional attributes of the software.

The advantages of doing this are:

Improved code readability
Reduced complexity

These can improve source-code maintainability and create a more expressive internal architecture or object model to improve extensibility.

Refactoring can also deal with potential bugs in the software.

Funny Code Refactoring Example

Sometimes code refactoring might be too much and not needed, there are some instances where refactoring your code might lead to your program being more complicated and less functional, and also less efficient.

Linting

A Linter is a tool that analyzes source code to flag programming errors, bugs, stylistic errors, and suspicious constructs. The term originates from a Unix utility that examined C language source code.

Linters were initially released in 1978, but have got really popular in the last 20 years.

There are linters such as ESLint for and JSLint for Javascript. Also Visual Studio has its own built in linter.

This is a linter

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