--- title: Writing clean code | daily.dev description: Clean code is some code which is easily readable and meaningful. It usually takes less cognitive effort to understand what’s actually happening and it is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/writing-clean-code-8ezy7f2z6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Writing clean code | daily.dev og:description: Clean code is some code which is easily readable and meaningful. It usually takes less cognitive effort to understand what’s actually happening and it is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/writing-clean-code-8ezy7f2z6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8Ezy7f2Z6.png og:image:alt: Writing clean code 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. # Writing clean code **[Faun](https://daily.dev/sources/faun)** · 4 min read · 34 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Clean code is some code which is easily readable and meaningful. It usually takes less cognitive effort to understand what’s actually happening and it is always concise to the point. The basic practice in writing clean code involves avoiding unintuitive names, complex nesting of if-else blocks and big code blocks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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