Your code might be gross for a reason

KBall, Divya, Mikeal, and Feross dig deep into refactoring. When to do it, best practices, things to watch out for, and the difference between a refactor and a rewrite. We then close out with some key pro tips.

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Featuring

• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Divya Sasidharan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Notes and Links

Refactoring

• Getting Empirical about Refactoring
• The Myth of the Software Rewrite
• git bisect

Protips

• Vimpack
• The 1 percent rule
• Mikeal’s Way of Code
• Toastmasters

Other episodes of JS Party that talk about refactoring:

• #70: Refactoring Script Soup
• #43: Interviews from JSConf

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