In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes discuss refactoring, what it is, why you should do it, when to do it, as well as best practices and much more.

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Show Notes

5:00 - What is refactoring and why would you do it?

Re-writing code while maintaining functionality
The first code you write is most likely not your best code

7:32 - Benefits To Refactoring

Keep part of your codebase in your head
Keep codebase timely and up to date (E.g. promises, async, await, etc.)
Writing code from the vantage point of having already built your product
Performance improvement

12:54 - When to refactor

When it's stopping your from progressing
When bringing someone new on to your team
When you can see a more elegant solution
When you're having performance issues
When you're sharing or presenting code
When you have a large codebase that needs to be broken up into smaller components

19:03 - Tips on how to refactor

Testing will make refactoring easier
Identify bad code and problem areas
Use git as an escape hatch
Break things into smaller chunks
Publish often use code to npm as modules

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