I fear this will be closed as 'opinion based'. There's another stack-exchange site called software-engineering (softwareengineering.stackexchange.com) that might be better suited for such questions. — Software Engineer 21 secs ago

This question is prone to be answered by opinions, not a single correct answer. See the on-topic section in the Help Center. Stack Overflow prefers questions about specific code problems, i.e. you should show an actual code example you have trouble with. "Best practices" questions are bound to have many exception cases, so they are discouraged. Your question might be better suited to softwareengineering.stackexchange.com — Bill Karwin 31 secs ago