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Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior.
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Is there a reason "replace conditional with table" isn't a standard refactoring?
I'm preparing a lecture where I will start with a many-branched conditional statement and replace it with a table. For example, I could start with:
function getMonthName(monthNumber) {
if (...
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I have a system that's part of an event-driven architecture. Need some advice on refactoring
I have a system that was built 5 years ago. It's part of a multi-system event driven architecture. And each system is owned by a different team with varied responsibility.
When the system was ...
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Refactoring a legacy codebase with a god Repository and incomplete Clean Architecture
I'm currently working on a large legacy project that tried to implement Clean Architecture combined with MVVM, but unfortunately didn't fully adhere to the principles.
One major problem:
The ...
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Techniques to do continuous refactoring
I've come to believe that continuous refactoring is a good way to maintain the health of a system that is in continuous development. That is, a system for which new features are always in the pipeline....
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Refactoring a codebase from manual memory management to RAII
Edit: @Ben Cottrell's comment said this was similar to a question about spaghetti code. While both questions involve large codebases, mine addresses a specific technical pattern: manual memory ...
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Rewrite or Transpiler - How to move away from a proprietary SAAS solution
We are using a Software as a Service platform that allows to create custom code which integrates in the platform and all its features (dialogues for common objects like Account, Customer, Address, and ...
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What is the root cause of a proliferation of "null checks"?
I work with a lot of Groovy code. One feature of the language is the "safe navigation operator" (?), which I think of as an inline null check. There are many things about Groovy that I like, ...
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Is refactoring scattered functions into a class always a good idea?
Straight to the point, here's the original code:
integer = input(...)
size = len(integer)
# Created three dicts for matching numbers as keys to corresponding words
dic_ones = {...}
dic_tens = {...}
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Refactoring the application with correct SemVer approach
Suppose I have an application with version 1.2.3.
If I refactor my application to remove deprecated calls while maintaining the same functionality and API as in version 1.2.3, what version number ...
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ReactJS hook vs utility function
Should we use utility functions in react or should everything be components and hooks?
I had this scenario:
Utility function for formatting money.
const formatMoney = (value) => value == null ? '' :...
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Is it still "feature envy" if the state to make decision or the action to take after asking the state involves other classes to participate?
According to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/212130/432039, if a class asks another class for the state, and then call methods of that class, it is called "feature envy", eg:
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Refactoring the testing code inside a big switch code block
The main logic of my function is a switch case, with the default case being the abnormal case.
function main(input) {
let result = process(input)
switch (result): {
//normal cases
case ...
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Refactoring Processor classes
I am writing some python 3 bioinformatics software and was wondering about the best way to write it in an OOP format. I am pretty sure a lot of my classes are violating the SRP principle, but I'm not ...
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Our php codes base has 6 different ways to do INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, how do I fix it?
Our php codes base has 6 different ways to do INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. It happened over years because the php framework is evolving and my team members come and go, although I won't say we ...
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To hide side effects or not?
Only loosely related to the title.
In my code I often encounter functions such as this one (e.g. from a pet project – a Discord bot written in Python – but seemingly a ubiquitous and reoccurring issue)...
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