Code, Don’t Do Stunts

The advanced principles of clean code will actually help you to become an easily understood developer who is able to code more cleanly. They teach you to be consistent in your choices, to think about other developers and your team, and to make communication the main tool of our work. Even before the source code.

It’s a fact: although the source code has a preponderant place in the developer’s job, we should not make it our main reason to be. It is a reality: the developer’s job is not to write code. It’s about finding a solution to a given problem while adapting to constraints that would get in the way. This is the basis of our job that we must absolutely keep in mind. And although the principles we have just seen in the previous chapter, such as SOLID, seem to be strongly linked to the code, we must try to have a more “meta” perspective on all this, thinking outside the box, and taking a step back. The principles...