Tag: Clean Code

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Events or Interfaces Listeners?

If you’re reading my posts and you’re checking my public repositories, you might notice that I’m implementing UI with Events that are passing input to the controllers. This is really convenient as you have a clear separation between logic and display layers.

Background

To recap what this UI implementation looks like, let me first explain where it comes from.

From the beginning, I always tried to make my code modular, but I couldn’t grasp how to do it in a really clean way. It was literally taking me years, multiple projects and few programming languages to get to digging into design patterns finally. With them, I started to understand more of what I was doing and how easy it was to start taking care of your code and separate different layers from each other! ?

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Use strings in a clean way!

By the title of this post, you might already know what I’m going to tell you today. You might think that using strings in code might not be that harmful to your project but believe me, it will.

Why?

Each advice you get should start with the question “why?”. So let me explain why you should care about using strings in your code in a proper way! ?

The first of all, you shouldn’t hardcode values in your code in the first place! Of course, this is not always possible, but the programmer should always strive for greatness. ?

When using a lot of strings in your code, it’s starting to get messy. You have to remember where you put specific text, and if you are using the same strings in multiple places, then you have a problem. Especially when you want to make some changes… ?

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