Recently I was given the task to fix a bug in a very complex component with some mind bending recursiveness going on. It took me days to wrap my he...
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MVS = minimum viable solution -> I love it! 👻
MVP = Minimum Viable Product (2001) which was used to curb gold plating.
from The power of progressive enhancement
Perfect illustration! keep the vehicle functional early on :-)
Let's spread this new concept :-)
haha, I was just talking about building something crappy that works really fast. Not sure if that's a new concept 😅
Even if it is not a new concept, it really worth to remind it :-)
True.
Then let's spread the word 🙏🏻🤠
Me too, I found the tips simply incredible and real, I have "experience" in legacy code and basically everything he said I apply and it's enlightening to see this in such a well-written post, it opens your mind, thank you very much 🦤.
Happy to hear that! 😊
Unpopular opinion: Nobody ever does point 7 after breaking things.
If one of my peers hands me code saying they'll clean up later, it'll be an instant refusal to review whatever mess they developed
Then again, the MVS part is rather brilliant. Gonna keep that in mind for sure.
Clean up is a MUST.
To make it clear: I do not recommend to hand over half baked solutions to anyone.
But rather quickly hack something together that works first, and make it pretty afterwards and only then hand in the PR.
Really really good article. We get paid to solve problems, not write code. The client doesn't care if something is in a factory, they care that their feature is developed and their business is making money and moving forward. But as always, before that code gets into main, try to clean it up!
Nice advises, thank you
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Addition to 7: don't get emotionally attached to your prototypes! Prototypes are for validating, you should be happy if you can throw them away after you validate your hypothesis :)
Good point! 🤝
Great advice, thanks🙏🙏
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Thank you very much for the insight
You are very welcome! :-)
Nice
Glad you like it <3
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My thoughts
My approach to tackling larger problems is to first test some of my assumptions using code that is not overly complex, but rather clean. This is what I am accustomed to, and it is difficult to abandon years of clean code practices.
Once I have successfully tested several hypotheses, I begin combining them together. This is when things become challenging because I need to maintain a codebase while still experimenting with different solutions. This often leads to multiple re-writings of the code.
This is where clean code can both help and hurt. While rewriting code takes extra time, I believe it is worth it because it provides more control over the code and predictability. This is crucial because you need to be able to prove that ideas are achievable or valuable, rather than having to convince others.
The purpose of creating a Minimum Viable Solution (MVS) or Minimum Viable Concept (MVC) is to present it and determine if it meets the objectives. If it does, you may not immediately start working on this idea yourself, or it may not be your responsibility at all. That's why "clean code" practices are so important, they are not only for you.
We should find that right balance between code that is not too messy and code that is not too clean, which could be difficult.
Abstractions
The last point that I don't like about this article is abstractions. I mean, maybe this is your experience that you're sharing, but personally, I like to create abstractions when trying something. This helps me explore many different solutions to see how they would work. Why limit yourself in conceptions when the goal is actually to find a solution?
I apologize in advance, maybe it is my pursuit of perfection, always striving to find the best solution, but this is how I grow. I am tired of spreading bad code all over the place and just to validate MVS or MVC.
Yes, yes, i was fix a big problems, and i also need to clean code, after i create a new file for a function, the solution change, i need to change the file name and file code, it take a lot of time :v