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Welcome to iteration. A weekly podcast about programming, development, and design through the lens of amazing books, chapter-by-chapter.

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

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