Code Smell 319 - Hardcoded Stateless Properties

📰 Dev.to · Maxi Contieri

Avoid hardcoding stateless properties in your code to improve maintainability and scalability

intermediate Published 10 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Identify stateless properties in your code
  2. Extract them into separate constants or variables
  3. Use dependency injection to provide these properties to your classes
  4. Test your code to ensure the properties are correctly injected
  5. Refactor your code to remove hardcoded stateless properties
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and software engineers can benefit from this lesson to write cleaner and more efficient code, and product managers can use this to guide their development teams towards better coding practices

Key Insight

💡 Hardcoded stateless properties make code inflexible and hard to maintain

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💡 Avoid hardcoding stateless properties to improve code maintainability! #codesmell #cleancode

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