Refactoring large JavaScript codebases with Michele Riva
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The Importance of Abstract Syntax Trees
The code mod sort of like automates the process. The first thing you do when you feed JavaScript file to a compiler or interpreter, they basically split your code base into individual tokens. So if you have a variable declaration, for example, const name equals Mikala,. You have four tokens, right? Then the compilation should create a concrete abstract tree. And it's a binary tree, where you assign a value to a variable declarator. When it comes to understanding if the overall program works, you have to remove all the concreteness out of this process.
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