Honestly, you should never put off organizing your clothes until, oh, wait, we're talking about code. You should never put off organizing your code until the night you want to ship it. Even the code you think is throw away may end up in production. Learn good coding habits and style from the beginning.
Good code, from the very start, is very important for many reasons:
- If your code uses sloppy indentation, it's more difficult to read. Many code editors, such as Visual Studio Code, Atom, and Webstorm, will format code for you, but don't rely on these tools.
- Poor naming conventions can hide problems.
- An improper case on variables can hide problems, such as using
this.Stateinstead ofthis.state. - Most of the time spent coding, as much as 80%, is in maintenance. If you can't read the code, you can't maintain it. When you're a starting out programmer, you frequently think you'll always be able to read your own code, but when you pick up a piece...