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title: >
    Stick to conventions
pubDate: 2023-07-27
permalink: >-
    archive/2023/07/27/stick-to-conventions
tags:
    - software-development
---

If you're performing a task as there's already a convention on how to do it, stick to it.

If the codebase follows a particular coding standard, use it.

If a project uses repository classes instead of interacting directly with a database, do that with your code too.

If you use a framework with a service container and uses dependency injection, do that instead of manually creating classes.

If you need additional functionality for a Drupal project and there's an established and well-known module that adds it, use it. Unless it doesn't meet your needs, in which case, document why that's the case and why you used a different module or wrote a custom implementation.

If you need to create a content listing page, use the Views module, which is a standard approach. If not, document why and then explore other solutions.

If you don't follow a convention, it will be harder for you or others to work on it in the future.