Variable Naming Best Practices in JavaScript

Like any other programming language, JavaScript relies heavily on well-structured and understandable code. One of the fundamental building blocks of clean JavaScript code is effective variable naming.

By adhering to certain best practices, you can significantly enhance the readability and maintainability of your JavaScript projects. Let’s dive into 12 sets of JavaScript variable naming guidelines.

Basic Things

After working on the initial stages of several largish projects, I accumulated a list of things that share the following three properties:

• they are irrelevant while the project is small,
• they are a productivity multiplier when the project is large,
• they are much harder to introduce down the line.

On over-engineering; finding the right balance

A big debate among developers is whether to write code for today’s problem or to build a general-purpose solution for future needs. Both approaches have their pros and cons. Specific-purpose code can quickly become messy. But overly general code can add unnecessary complexity. This post, obviously opinionated, argues for a middle ground. That’s the sweet spot, as always.

A Tyrant Guide to Code Quality Gates featuring CSharpier, Husky.NET, and SonarCloud

What the Code Health group does is work on efforts that universally improve the lives of engineers and their ability to write products with shorter iteration time, decreased development effort, greater stability, and improved performance.

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