3 Tips To Write Better Code As A Beginner Frontend Developer
As a beginner, you don’t think about coding style. Implement these three principles to improve your code base immediately.
Over the course of the last months, I had the opportunity to mentor a group of talented new web developers who participated in TechLabs’ digital shaper program.
It was really fun to see the groups’ learning progress from zero to deployed application. While I was reviewing their first bits of code, it reminded me of my first years as a developer.
Especially if you are self-taught and don’t have any formal education, you just rock n roll. You don’t have any feeling for good or bad code practices. You are happy about anything that works.
This got me thinking: “Which coding principles do I wish I had known earlier?”. Well, here they are!
You can implement these simple tips in your coding practice right away. But although simple, they changed a lot in how I write code.
Note: The principles are applicable to all areas of programming, even though the title says ‘frontend developers’ specifically.
1. “Return Early” Instead Of Nested Conditions
In web development, you have a lot of situations in which you have to check if…
