Code Reviews - Predictable and maintainable code

Code Reviews - Predictable and maintainable code.

The code we write is consumed by 2 entities – Machines and Humans.

Machines don’t care about how you write your code because a compiler compiles everything and feeds the machine. A machine is happy to run if your code is compiled successfully. That’s the end of the story.

One the other hand – we have humans – our own team members – old and new. As I have already mentioned, we have style guides to help us follow simple coding standards like Tabs vs spaces, Prettier to format our code, it is more easy for everyone in the team to understand and reason-out on the code base if we have near-identical code.