I’d like to suggest that there is value in using constants where possible instead of variables.

…er to debug and add new features. Try to keep your code as tidy as possible. In the examples below, it’s painfully obvious we don’t need to create an instance of a BackgroundImage each time, and can just assign the value for each case.

5 easy wins to refactor even the ugliest code

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Mikhail Levkovsky

Brian Mearns

1 min readJul 22, 2019

I’d like to suggest that there is value in using constants where possible instead of variables. How would you weigh the benefits of removing redundant variables versus the benefits of avoiding re-assignable variables?

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