Clean Code in JavaScript

Stubborn opinions

Code is rarely written in isolation; we often work with people to bring projects to life. Clean code, therefore, depends on both your approach and the approach of the entire team. A team that owns a code base continuously decides the tools, conventions, and abstractions that they'll use to achieve their goals. As such, members of the team must be able to communicate well and share perspectives, molding these perspectives into a clear outcome. Sometimes, compromise is necessary. And compromise can often hit the ego.

JavaScript and its tools are susceptible to strong opinions. Over time, we each gain experience in working with different approaches and, often through toil and pain, end up having a set of beliefs about which ...