--- title: Writing Clean JavaScript — ES6 Edition | daily.dev description: Clean code is not just code that works, but rather code that can be easily read, reused, and refactored by others. This article focuses on writing clean... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/writing-clean-javascript-es6-edition-djk0jktgq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Writing Clean JavaScript — ES6 Edition | daily.dev og:description: Clean code is not just code that works, but rather code that can be easily read, reused, and refactored by others. This article focuses on writing clean... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/writing-clean-javascript-es6-edition-djk0jktgq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dJK0JkTgQ.png og:image:alt: Writing Clean JavaScript — ES6 Edition 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 JavaScript — ES6 Edition **[Geek Culture](https://daily.dev/sources/geekculture)** · 1 min read · 326 upvotes · 29 comments ## Summary Clean code is not just code that works, but rather code that can be easily read, reused, and refactored by others. This article focuses on writing clean JavaScript ES6 code which is not framework-specific. Most of the mentioned examples can apply to almost any other programming language. ## 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. **@mbrown** · 4 upvotes > Great advice with excellent examples of Do's and Don'ts! **@lhan08** · 1 upvotes > nice! Also try the airbnb/javascript :) **@fnavarijo** · 1 upvotes > I really liked the article. Nice one! **@yardan\_dev** · 1 upvotes > this makes your code easy to read , i like this tips 😍 **@hamatoyogi** · 1 upvotes > Great examples in this post 👏🏽 ## 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 --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/writing-clean-javascript-es6-edition-djk0jktgq) ```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":"Writing Clean JavaScript — ES6 Edition","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/writing-clean-javascript-es6-edition-djk0jktgq","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/writing-clean-javascript-es6-edition-djk0jktgq"},"datePublished":"2021-08-27T08:40:20.500Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Clean code is not just code that works, but rather code that can be easily read, reused, and refactored by others. 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Also try the airbnb/javascript :)","datePublished":"2021-10-30T14:14:49.928Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/dJK0JkTgQ#c-f0wmDTi0e","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"LaaaaanN","url":"https://daily.dev/lhan08","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14991331?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I really liked the article. Nice one!","datePublished":"2021-08-28T00:33:17.097Z","dateModified":"2021-08-28T00:33:41.142Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/dJK0JkTgQ#c-qshfwEPzc","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Fernando Navarijo","url":"https://daily.dev/fnavarijo","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9476559?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"this makes your code easy to read , i like this tips 😍","datePublished":"2021-08-27T21:53:22.897Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/dJK0JkTgQ#c-PwJE6xqM-","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Yardan","url":"https://daily.dev/yardan_dev","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--dIg5y8u1--/f_auto/v1708564305/avatars/avatar_pIwYvORdp"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great examples in this post 👏🏽","datePublished":"2021-08-30T06:34:31.827Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/dJK0JkTgQ#c-qOB9uSW-l","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Yoav Ganbar","url":"https://daily.dev/hamatoyogi","image":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/6682981?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```