For a developer, there are numerous approaches to improve code quality and automate tasks. Maintaining clean and easy-to-read code would also make you a more valuable developer.
In this article, I've compiled three suggestions for improving the quality of your code:
1. Improve the naming
Do you think a project name, a class name, a function name, or any other name should be improved? Therefore, go ahead and start working on it.
Perhaps your variable or class name does not accurately communicate the information represented by the variable or class; it might be too ambiguous or confusing. Also, keeping a variable name short isn't always a good idea.
2. Extract a compound conditional
When different operators, such as and (&), or (||) and so on, are used to connect statements within a conditional, the result is referred to as a compound conditional.
If a compound conditional is used more than once, consider extracting it under a new term that refers to a higher level meaning.
Take the following scenario as an example:
if (is_saturday && is_sunday) {
}
Encapsulating this compound conditional under a named constant enhances readability:
const is_weekend = is_saturday && is_sunday;
if is_weekend {
}
3. Create/update your snippets
A snippet is a tiny area of reusable source code, machine code or text in programming. Here's a wonderful collection of JavaScript Code Snippets that you could find useful.
Depending on your editor, try adding a new snippet or deleting those you no longer need.
If you use a different code editor or programming language, you can look up how to use snippets in your favorite editor on the web. A guide for creating and applying code snippets in Intellij (live templates) may be found here.
Final thoughts
All of these fantastic ideas were inspired by the #codequalitychallenge.
Join the #codequalitychallenge's next cohort for further tips on how to improve code quality. In addition, at the end of the challenge, you will receive a reward! 😎 How cool is that?
Although this cohort isn't always running, you may discover a list of exercises outside of the 30 days challenge in their Exercises category.
I took up the challenge and am currently on my last day (yay! 🎉) and I'm sure I'll do it again in the future.
I hope you found this post to be informative. So, how about you? What techniques do you use to improve your code? You are welcome to share it in the comments section. 😄 Until next time, cheers!