Angular: Recurring problems I face as a Front-End Consultant
Hi, I’m Michele Stieven, a front-end developer and consultant in Italy.
Over the last 2 years I’ve been working 90% of the time with Angular since it’s one of the most requested technologies in this field in my country. I’d like to make a quick recap of the problems I face most as a consultant, and I’d like to address some issues or questions that I get asked maybe too often!
Some of these points are only related to Angular, others may be applicable to any other framework, library, or even plain JavaScript.
Straight to the points!
Messy code
I may seem a bit arrogant with this one but it is such an important topic that it drives me crazy when it’s taken lightly: you absolutely cannot underestimate the importance of writing clean code. I don’t care if you’re using a framework and you think to be an advanced developer just because of that: if I can’t understand your code, there’s a problem. I don’t care if you say you understand it: in fact, 90% of the times you’re just lying to yourself (artfully or not) and if you took a look at the code you wrote some weeks before, I bet you couldn’t. Your first job as a professional developer is to write clean and clear code. Forget frameworks, forget libraries: there’s something more important. If…
