“Clean Code” Genius? Stick to These 6 Golden Rules

Be honest … Any codebase looks like a ghost house. One entrance, one scream, never go back. That’s just the worst because half of time it is your own code haunting at you.

But at least there’s good news in the world! Clean code really is not hard at all, just follow a few really simple (but seemingly impossible) rules. So if you don’t want your code looking like spaghetti thrown all over the wall, learn these six golden commandments:

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1️⃣ Separation of Concerns (SOC)

Translation: Don’t keep jamming more and more things into the same God-class or 500-line method.

Divide the work of your program into distinct aspects or tasks. I’d rather not have to wade through a function that makes coffee, verifies the user and sends e-mails all at the same time.