Andrew Binstock writes that the best developers keep their classes to 50-60 lines of code. How can you do that? Here are five techniques:
- Diminish the workload — Each class should just one thing.
- Avoid primitive obsession — Don’t use collections in their raw form.
- Reduce the number of class and instance variables — If you have a lot of variables, you can probably move a group of them to a separate class.
- Subclass special-case logic — If you have logic that isn’t used very often, move it to a sub-class or a separate class.
- Don’t repeat yourself (DRY) — Discipline yourself to avoid duplicate code in both the writing and the maintenance phases.
