The Importance of Coding Standards
10 Feb 2021
Enhance Efficiency
Coding standards are important for programmers and readers because they can understand code more quickly and easily. For example, when I check code that doesn’t follow the rules such as using proper naming and useful comments, I feel like I have to rewrite the code to understand how I’m coding because my code is so cluttered that it’s really a waste of time because of the bad code. Thus, programmers can enhance efficiency due to coding standards when coding and re-code. Coding standards also benefit for readers especially new programmers who are not good at programmer languages. Therefore, clean code increases efficiency and reduces the number of errors in your code.
For Team Work
As we all know, people like to read a clear and concise article, and code is like an article. If the code looks good, readers will be more likely to read your code and want to work with you on the project. Therefore, a good coding style is important for programmers. In addition, we can easily and quickly understand our teammates’ code due coding standards, because we can do not need to waste time to correct coding style errors. In addition, we will not misundertand others code if they follow the coding standards. In general, following coding standards can help us make a good impression in order to have a good teamwork.
The benefits of ESLint
After using ESLint in IntelliJ, I felt this was a good way to help us make our code easier to read and cleaner. Although there were some bugs with coding standards while I was writing code that made me feel uncomfortable and even wanted to stop coding to fix it, I tried writing the entire program and then addressing the warnings that started with ESLint. In addition, ESLint can automatically notify me of syntax errors and style issues, which helps me make my code easier to read and understand. However, I have to download the three files in each new project, such as.eslintrc, and run it from the terminal. Maybe I’m not familiar with how to configure ESLint, so there will be some problems along the way. In general, ESLint helps us write code that is more readable, which is good for us and for future team work.