I'm a junior dev, been on placement a year.

I get tasks done mostly on time, my pull requests are merged, yet I still feel like what I'm writing is seriously under quality.

What point will I stop writing code that isn't good enough to not be stressed about? 😷

Happens to all of us. I look back at code I wrote 5 years ago, heck ever last year, and think to myself "omg, wtf was I thinking?!"

The trick is to just keep learning!

I have been coding for 8 years and I feel like my code is never good enough.

while(true) {
improveCode();
}

I guess at some point you will feel lie your project is "good enough to ship"

Get a copy of this book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin) https://amazon.co.uk/dp/0132350882/...

The principals is demonstrates are good for all languages and it's really what we should all be aspiring to achieve it should help your coding skills mature also have a read about imposter syndrome it explains what I think your ranting about (not feeling good enough)

Experience, that's all you need and it will come 😄

I personally think that if you ever look back at code and don't think I would do it a better way... Then you need to change career because you are no longer growing and improving yourself

It's like athletics. You always have something you can improve on, and you'll continually yet to get better as you go through each and every project. If not, then somethings wrong. Always strive for better.

I find that the more experienced you get then the bigger projects and tighter deadlines get handed to you. It's bad to say but you'll find yourself writing more poor code just to get things shipped. The projects start nice and tidy but rarely end that way.

Thanks for the confidence boost everybody. Maybe one day I'll be able to commit something that I know is actually worthy :P