Don’t IKEA your components…

IKEA Component

Have you ever come across the “Happy Birthday, IKEA” meme? It’s the image that pops into my head during many a code review. It reminds me of a principle I read in Robert C. Martin’s (also known as Uncle Bob) “Clean Code”. The rule goes something like this:

A good function can have one, maybe two, maximum three, ideally none arguments. © Uncle Bob