Become a better developer

Ipicky2 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:21:01 +0000

Actually, I have been developing since five years, always at school. But since one year and a half I work for a company, three days per week. I don't think that I'm the best developer but not the worst. And for this year I has deciding to be a better developer. But why ?

My definition of good developer

I read many post on DEV or other forum, and frequently I saw this :
"A good developer is fast, writes few lines, very specialized."
"Companies search a developer very qualified in one domain."

I'm not ok. It's not be a good developer to write three lines instead of ten, if no one can take the code after it. It's not be a good developer to code quickly, if the code is ugly. I prefer take my time, but my code is good for me, for the company and for the person who takes my code afterwards.

How can I become a better developer ?

To become a better developer I separate my year with three objectives :

1) Refactoring
2) Testing
3) Performances

I chose these objectives because, for me, it's the definition of good developer.

1) A code clean, whoever takes my code, it will be easy to take back.
2) A constant code, the company is based on a tested and clean code.
3) Code that doesn't use more resources than necessary.

Refactoring

I searched many books on refactoring, mainly for JS. And I found this :

Refactoring : Improving the Design of Existing Code / Martin Fowler

I think this book should be read by all developers. I have learned so much ! Analyze and understand how it is possible to refactor your code, this is what is explained in this book, with very clear examples.
I highly recommend it.

And last week at my job, I finish a PHP code and I decide to refactoring my code by applying what I learned. And it's the better satisfaction. My book is the second edition with examples on JS, but the first edition is on Java.

My list of books

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers / Robert C. Martin

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship / Robert C. Martin

Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design / Robert C. Martin

Clean Agile: Back to Basics / Robert C. Martin

Test Driven Development: By Example / Kent Beck

Implementation Patterns / Kent Beck

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation / Jez Humble

High Performance JavaScript / Nicholas C Zakas

These are mainly books on refactoring, because I haven't researched other objectives yet. I don't have an exceptional level of English, I would even say that it is poor, but if we go to great lengths we are always rewarded. Sorry for my English, if you read until the end. I will do other articles on my readings. Feel free to give me references, or anything else in comments. Thanks for reading.

Call data ejs to database MongoDB

Ipicky2 — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 08:59:36 +0000

Hi, for a web development project, i need to send data from my database to my index.ejs, to display. It's a success ! Now I would like recover the same data and send to another collection in my database.
(I display my products with "products collection", and when the user clicks on "buy", the product is sending to "basket collection".)
If somebody can help me. I have my two functions on the same .js.
I attached the screen of index.ejs and method.js (where I do my functions).

index.ejs (display) :
https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/lx9yvtejp261xncmcxvd.png

method.js (function basket) :
https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/3ee21psgg0i3qh92pyhh.png

method.js (function products to display on index.ejs) :
https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/zaskox2q384li0lqr7yz.png

How to create a session / login with ejs ?

Ipicky2 — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:50:29 +0000

Hi, for a web development project, I want to make a login page on my website, but I don't know how to create a session, and compare the login with my .json.
I tried to do my login system with passport, express-session ans socket.io, but I didn't succeed. I don't understand the logic required.

Could someone please help me ? Explain to me the logic ? Show me an example code which help me ?

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Call data ejs to database MongoDB

How to create a session / login with ejs ?