--- title: 10 Clean Coding Practices | daily.dev description: Sanura Hettiarachchi outlines 10 clean coding practices. Follow correct naming conventions to avoid poor naming. Declare variables at the place of use.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/10-clean-coding-practices-bkdmsxynn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 10 Clean Coding Practices | daily.dev og:description: Sanura Hettiarachchi outlines 10 clean coding practices. Follow correct naming conventions to avoid poor naming. Declare variables at the place of use.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/10-clean-coding-practices-bkdmsxynn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BKdmSXYnn.png og:image:alt: 10 Clean Coding Practices og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 10 Clean Coding Practices **[The Startup](https://daily.dev/sources/swlh)** · 6 min read · 37 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Sanura Hettiarachchi outlines 10 clean coding practices. Follow correct naming conventions to avoid poor naming. Declare variables at the place of use. Minimise extensive nested conditions. Don’t implement super long functions. Avoid code duplication. Make necessary comments. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@arklev** · 2 upvotes > Very nice guide lines. **@leandrodavimg** · 1 upvotes > I agree with each point addressed. **@mathad** · 1 upvotes > Nice post **@sanuful** · 0 upvotes > Thank you --- Tags: [#c](https://daily.dev/tags/c), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/10-clean-coding-practices-bkdmsxynn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"10 Clean Coding Practices","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/10-clean-coding-practices-bkdmsxynn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/10-clean-coding-practices-bkdmsxynn"},"datePublished":"2020-12-12T13:42:53.834Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T06:34:21.628Z","description":"Sanura Hettiarachchi outlines 10 clean coding practices. 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