---
title: "Anti-patterns You Should Avoid in Your Code"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/anti-patterns-you-should-avoid-in-your-code-z4e2-grjs
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/antipatterns-to-avoid-in-code/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
author: "Kealan"
published: 2020-11-23T21:26:07.340Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["general-programming"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 46
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Anti-patterns You Should Avoid in Your Code

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@kealan](https://daily.dev/kealan) · 7 min read · 46 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Kealan Parr is the author of the book Code of Conduct. He is also the co-author of Code of conduct: A Handbook for Code Creators. His latest book, Code Of Conduct: Code For Creators, is on sale now at Amazon.com for $19.99.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@sshanzel** · 3 upvotes

> Good read.

**@steppico** · 3 upvotes

> I saw plenty of Spaghetti Code while working my first year as dev. Well written article!

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