Best Practices

Hammock Driven Development

Before you dive into coding, take a step back and think about the problem.

"A few weeks of hard work can save a few hours of careful planning"

A note pad and pen are the best tools for planning your solution and will save you a lot of time and headaches.

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

— John Johnson

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Productivity

Single Responsibility Principle

Your functions and objects should do one thing only and do it well.

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KISS

Keep it simple, stupid.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability

  • Edsger W. Dijkstra

Simple Made Easy

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

— Leonardo da Vinci

DRY

Don't repeat yourself!

If you find yourself writing the same code more than twice, break it out into a function.

YAGNI

You ain't gonna need it!

A principle of extreme programming that states don't add functionality until you need it.

Structure Code

  • Modules
  • Functions
  • Patterns

Reuse Code

Is there a module, tool or framework already written that fits your solution?

"Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)"

  • Eric S. Raymond

Clean Code

Keep your code readable. You and others will thank you in the future!

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Iteration

Remember software development is an iterative process. Don't expect to write it perfect first time. Make it good enough and then refactor your code to make it better next time.

Pair Programming

Two heads are better than one!

Code Reviews

Ask someone to review you code for feedback.

Coding Standards

Keep your code readable, consistent and maintainable.

Testing

Learn how to practice TDD/BDD it will help you write decoupled code with less bugs.

Use the source control, Luke!

Use source control, what would happen if the dog ate your codes?

Documentation

Comment your code, however if you have well structured clean code with descriptive functions and variables the code should speak for itself.

Make sure your project has a good README file

Design Patterns

Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. They allow us to stand on the shoulders of the combined experience of the many developers that came before us.

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

Anti Patterns

You don't want to do it like that.

Automate

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Configure

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Copy & Paste Variables

Copy and paste variables to avoid error messages from spelling mistakes. Try not to copy and paste code from Stack Overflow and other places without at least trying to understand how it works.

Knowing What You Don't Know

"True wisdom is knowing what you don't know"

  • Confucius

Do you know what you don't know!?

Keep Learning

Never stop learning. There are so many resources out there such as books, blogs and podcasts. Try other languages. Talk to other developers. What's happening in the community? Keep adding new tools to your belt, then you have more options for your solutions.

Have Fun!

"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."

  • Linus Torvalds

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