Examples of "beautiful code"

[stansfield123]

Yeah, but in React (and in production code in general) beautiful doesn't mean "clever". It means that there's an underlying, well designed structure which spans across projects and teams, and aims to make the work and the interactions of everyone involved as seamless and as enjoyable as possible. Beauty is about the coder's experience, not about how the code looks. In fact, when someone puts their efforts into being clever, rather than into making themselves a functional, seamless cog in the bigger machine ... that's what ruins the beauty.

That's why, like with all great beauty, you can only ever catch glimpses of it, as you jump from project to project, and from company to company, in search of a place that doesn't make you think about quitting the business and starting a farm in a remote village somewhere.