Our take
Inactiveno commits in over a year- Activity
- 20
- Community
- 76
- Issues
- 21
- Pull requests
- 21
-45 stars in the last 17 days
- More contributors than 78% of the projects we track
This is a well-established, MIT-licensed reference with broad community participation, but its lack of recent commits and releases means teams should treat it as guidance to evaluate, not a maintained or authoritative standard.
Good fit if
- You want concise JavaScript examples to prompt discussion about readable and refactorable code.
- Your team is comfortable adapting principles to its own codebase rather than enforcing every recommendation.
- You want a freely reusable reference under the MIT license.
Look elsewhere if
- You need an actively maintained tool that checks or formats code automatically.
- Your project requires current, versioned guidance or an issue process with recent activity.
- You need a repository focused on runnable software, tests, or installation instructions rather than educational material.
All health signals
| Last commit | 2024-07-29 (2.2 years ago) |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 90 days | 0 |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Contributors | 100+ (top contributor: 56% of commits) |
| Issues closed, last 90 days | 0 |
| Pull requests merged, last 90 days | 0 |
| Project age | 9 years |
Checked on 2026-10-09 with the GitHub API.
Overview
clean-code-javascript adapts ideas from Robert C. Martin's Clean Code for JavaScript developers. It uses contrasting code examples to explain choices that can make code easier to read, test, reuse, and refactor, from naming and function design to SOLID principles and error handling.
This is a learning and review resource, not a package or automated linter. Its introduction explicitly describes the rules as guidelines that teams should assess rather than apply rigidly.
Key Features
- Side-by-side examples show less maintainable and preferred approaches.
- Naming guidance covers meaningful, searchable names and avoiding unnecessary context.
- Function advice addresses single-purpose behavior, parameter counts, side effects, and composition.
- Object and class sections discuss encapsulation, getters and setters, method chaining, and composition versus inheritance.
- Explains JavaScript-oriented applications of all five SOLID principles.
- Includes examples for testing, promises and async/await, error handling, formatting, and comments.
- Lists community-maintained translations in multiple languages.
Use Cases
- JavaScript learners can use the examples to build familiarity with common maintainability principles.
- Teams can use the guide as a discussion prompt when reviewing naming, function boundaries, or object design.
- Developers refactoring older code can consult relevant sections on duplication, side effects, dead code, and abstraction.
- Instructors and mentors can point to concrete examples when explaining SOLID and clean-code trade-offs in JavaScript.
What you need
Detected in the repository
- JavaScript (main language on GitHub)
License in plain words
MITpermissive
- Commercial use: yes
- Modify and redistribute: yes
- You must keep: the copyright and license notice
- Share your changes: no
A summary, not legal advice: the LICENSE file is what applies.
Getting Started
Open the README and use its table of contents to jump to a topic. There is no installation command; the repository is a guide.
Considerations
The repository is marked inactive in the supplied health data: it has had no commits in over a year, no recent releases, and no recent issue closures or merged pull requests. Its contributor base is not concentrated around one person, but that does not make the guidance current. The README also cautions that the principles are guidelines, not universally agreed rules, and specifically notes that some advice, such as avoiding conditionals, depends on whether alternatives like polymorphism fit the problem. There are no runtime, infrastructure, or test requirements listed because this is documentation rather than an executable tool.
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