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+title: 'Write functional code when it benefits you'
+tweet_id: '1272826462031286272'
+thread_slug: laravel-clean-code-tactics
+author_username: samuelstancl
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+    - 'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ean8cQUWoAEjdO3.jpg'
+created_at: 2021-04-06T16:07:38+00:00
+slug: write-functional-code-when-it-benefits-you
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+Functional code can both clean things up and make them impossible to understand. Refactor common loops into functional calls, but don't write stupidly complex reduce()s just to avoid writing a loop. There's a use case for both.