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# Better Practices With Clean Code

**[The Startup](https://daily.dev/sources/swlh)** · 5 min read · 65 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Clean code means developers have more ease and less stress to work on a project. It's not about when we leave our project we need to make it perfect. Instead, it advices us to gradually and frequently refactor our code. It won't slow us down, it will speed us up when we get back to that code.

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Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@optimus** · 6 upvotes

> Hope these videos will be also helpful in this regard
>
> https://youtu.be/HcijbAI4eB0
>
> https://youtu.be/OHQoytCkQUY

**@isashi** · 4 upvotes

> Nice article, but instead of
>
>
>
> ```function checkAdmin(user) {
>   if (!user) return false
>   if (!user.isAuthenticated) return false
>   if (!user.isAdmin) return false
>   return true
>
> }```
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>
> it's not better just
>
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> ```function checkAdmin(user) {
>   return user && user.isAuthenticated && user.isAdmin
> }```
>
>
> ??

**@lawrenxjr** · 2 upvotes

> yeah sure!!

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