Checklist to Avoid Mishappenings of Web Development

Want to become a better programmer? Here i find a good list of mistakes usually done by developers during small or big web development projects.

Let's have a look:

• Is error reporting on and display errors on in development and off in production?
• Do not suppress errors in your code
• Implement a logging framework to avoid future code errors
• Use a caching strategy to speed up code compilation.
• Use best practices for programming design patterns.
• Always test your code and repeat testing each time whenever a change occurs in code base.
• Review and audit your team members code before and after merging code to the code base.
• Practice defensive programming.
• Learn and use OOPs principles to make code flexible.
• Have a solid workflow and processes for developing and deploying code.
• Differentiate between read/write database queries.
• Use a solid database library which can connect to multiple databases.
• Test SQL queries for exploits.
• Learn and use indexes on database tables
• Use database transactions.
• Secure sensitive data in the database.
• Use different coding environments: development, staging, production.
• Implement a backup and monitoring strategy.

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