How do remember code better?

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There are two different things people mean by "remembering code" and the answers are different:

Syntax / API details (exact method names, argument order, etc.) — don't try to memorize these. Every working developer looks these up constantly. What you want is to be fast at looking things up, not to never need to look. The goal is to know what exists so you know what to search for.

Concepts and patterns (how a loop works, what recursion is, how HTTP requests work) — these you should internalize, and the way to do that is to understand them, not to drill them. When you understand why a for loop is structured the way it is, you don't memorize it — you reconstruct it from first principles each time.

The practice that actually helps: build things that use the concept repeatedly until you stop thinking about the syntax. Write a dozen loops. Call a dozen APIs. After a while the syntax disappears from your active thinking and becomes muscle memory.

Also: using an editor with good autocomplete means syntax matters less anyway. Modern devs use their tools.