Clean vs Sloppy Code

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the difference between sloppy code and clean code, how to establish rules for your code base, and how to enforce your rules. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 00:46 Sponsor: Sentry 01:51 Uses performance issues Uses.tech 04:23 Understand Sloppy Code 10:17 Syntax website timestamp issue 12:56 Establish rules to fix sloppy code 16:35 Adding a feature, do you refactor an unrelated function? 23:07 How do you enforce rules? GitHub Actions Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready to stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The Carrazius! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax! On this Monday hasty treat, we're going to be talking about
0:31.0	clean and sloppy code. We're going to be talking all about different ways
0:35.0	that you could enforce rules, establish rules, enforce rules, automate, and
0:41.0	document to make sure that your code is always clean. My name is Scott Tolinsky.
0:45.0	I'm a developer from Denver. This episode is sponsored by Century at
0:50.0	Century.io-s-e-n-t-r-y.io. Century is the perfect place to see all of your
0:57.0	errors and exceptions happening in your project, but also how to understand
1:00.0	what's going on in your project. This episode is about clean code, and if
1:03.0	you're writing clean code, well, that's only going to help when you're trying to
1:07.0	solve problems, because things are going to be named correctly, they're going to be
1:10.0	labeled correctly, and we're going to be able to dive in and see exactly what
1:13.0	went wrong and where. But not only that as Century does a great job of
1:17.0	just constantly improving, they're introducing constantly new features, which
1:22.0	is always shocking to me, because I open up Century so often that it's
1:26.0	really awesome just how many times there's something new popping up.
1:29.0	For instance, they just launched a session replay, which allows you to get a
1:32.0	video reproduction of your user session so you can see exactly what happened.
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