Refactoring from Junior to Senior Web Developer – Ep 4: Using Configs and Environments

Having a centralized place in your application where everything is configured, including the environment where your code is running is essential to easy setup and avoiding complicated logic and too many conditional statements in your code.

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In this series you get an inside look as I train our junior web developers on sample projects. You'll get to see how junior code and practices can be redone from a senior developer's point of view. This is a great practical series for anyone starting off in web development and wanting to take their development to the next level.

The series begins with a sample school PHP web app that was done completely by our junior. It's a simple CRUD app with a few models in an MVC format. We then walk through it and slowly transform it into senior level code.