--- title: Clean Code: The Art of Clean Naming | daily.dev description: Learn the art of clean naming in coding and how it can improve code readability and maintainability. Discover best practices for clear and descriptive naming,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/clean-code-the-art-of-clean-naming-pizmye2xy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Clean Code: The Art of Clean Naming | daily.dev og:description: Learn the art of clean naming in coding and how it can improve code readability and maintainability. Discover best practices for clear and descriptive naming,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/clean-code-the-art-of-clean-naming-pizmye2xy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PIzmYE2XY.png og:image:alt: Clean Code: The Art of Clean Naming 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. # Clean Code: The Art of Clean Naming **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 6 min read · 442 upvotes · 22 comments ## Summary Learn the art of clean naming in coding and how it can improve code readability and maintainability. Discover best practices for clear and descriptive naming, providing context in variable names, and avoiding abbreviations and magic numbers. ## 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. **@fabooy961** · 7 upvotes > who doesn't love discussions about semantics with co-workers that barely speak english? > >  > > -> ids kredäntschal tabol änd dis is kredäntschal list! FML! **@akshayupendran** · 5 upvotes > If not properly done, naming can lead to confusion. Sometimes, names need additional context to be fully understood. This is especially true in larger codebases where the same term might be used in different contexts. For example, get could mean anything, but getUserDetails or fetchOrderStatus provides much more context about what the function does. **@kiselitza** · 5 upvotes > Hehe abbreviations are a tricky one. > It's a constant battle between having a spaghetti naming and clarity. > Neither is fun to have, but clarity should win in like 99/100 cases. **@argolovato** · 3 upvotes > I love seeing more people talk about clean coding - it feels like it's not trendy to talk about it anymore, and yet there are so many benefits. **@ghost** · 2 upvotes > Few years ago I read clean code by uncle Bob, which by the way is an amazing book for any software developer, and Although it is Java oriented, I was able to implement the same ideas in Ruby, Python, Groovy and Bash script. 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