Chapter 55. Best Practices Versus Creativity as a Developer
In this chapter, I'm going to discuss how you can find the balance of best practices versus creativity as a developer.
To be honest, this was initially a difficult chapter to write, mainly because I had a hard time organizing my thoughts on the topic since it's a little abstract. I had the high-level concept of the strained relationship between best practices vs creativity as a developer, in the sense that many developers, especially the ones new to coding who will fall into two camps:
- Those attempting to follow standardized conventions in every way, essentially duplicating code from tutorials and a language or framework's documentation page.
- Those ignoring all common practices and building applications in whatever way that makes the most sense to them (at the time).
There are pros and cons with both approaches, and like many other topics, a cross between the two is going to result in the best strategy. Let...
