--- title: The Greatest React Developer I Ever Met | daily.dev description: Mohammad Faisal shares the story of one of the greatest engineers he has seen in his life. He was not the fastest but he cared about best practices. His code... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-react-developer-i-ever-met-ebjxm24wf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Greatest React Developer I Ever Met | daily.dev og:description: Mohammad Faisal shares the story of one of the greatest engineers he has seen in his life. He was not the fastest but he cared about best practices. His code... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-react-developer-i-ever-met-ebjxm24wf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ebjXM24wF.png og:image:alt: The Greatest React Developer I Ever Met 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. # The Greatest React Developer I Ever Met **[JavaScript in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish)** · 4 min read · 101 upvotes · 12 comments ## Summary Mohammad Faisal shares the story of one of the greatest engineers he has seen in his life. He was not the fastest but he cared about best practices. His code was so beautiful that a junior developer had absolutely no problem understanding what was going on there. He left the company due to conflict with management. ## 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. **@jobizil** · 3 upvotes > Wow, this just made my day. Henceforth I'll try my best to keep my codes as clean as possible. THanks for sharing **@mnoudoo** · 2 upvotes > Very inspiring ! This is a very clear example of what best practices can be, thank you :) **@cupofcraft** · 2 upvotes > Yup, find those kind of people that mentor us without even knowing is soo precious in our job. > > Most of that all of us should aim to became this kind of developer and guide the new leads simply with the code we write. **@jctechdev** · 2 upvotes > This is inspiring. Thanks for sharing. **@kanda13337** · 1 upvotes > meaningfully variable and function names..👌 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-react-developer-i-ever-met-ebjxm24wf) ```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":"The Greatest React Developer I Ever Met","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-react-developer-i-ever-met-ebjxm24wf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-react-developer-i-ever-met-ebjxm24wf"},"datePublished":"2021-08-18T02:06:26.569Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Mohammad Faisal shares the story of one of the greatest engineers he has seen in his life. 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