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Refactoring

Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler (with Kent Beck)

Introduction

• What’s in the book?
• Who’s it for?
• What’s refactoring?

Refactoring process:

• Identify a pain, smell a smell, we’ll talk more about when to refactor in later episodes.
• Separate feature additions from refactors
• Refactorings are like diets - a lifestyle vs an intensive
• Test coverage first
• Small changes continually running tests
• End goal: lots of small well-named functions that tells a clear story.

Considerations + Thoughts

• Tests let JP in react native move faster
• Refactoring lets you get things out of your head and into the code. Do this continuously.
• Performance and refactoring

My Pick:

• How To Code Well - howtocodewell.net
• Dark Net Diaries https://darknetdiaries.com/
• Selection - Apple's Design Process