Refactoring script soup (JS Party #70)

KBall, Nick, and Chris dig into the various dimensions along which projects vary, dig into testing and best practices, and share a number of lessons learned from legacy projects.

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Featuring:

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• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Ways projects vary

• Mocha
• 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory
• Node Release Schedule
• Reddit discussion on developing mission critical software
• Survivorship Bias

Testing & best practices

• Inner Source
• Unit Testing versus Functional Tests

Legacy code & refactoring

• Gulp
• Grunt
• Legacy Code
• Do You Write Legacy Code?
• Webpack Aliases

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