Refactoring

V · The craft

Refactoring

Martin Fowler · 2018 (2nd ed.) · 448 pp.

What it does

A catalogue of small, safe, named transformations of code. The 2nd edition uses JavaScript; the patterns are language-agnostic.

Who should read it

When you're stuck looking at 500 lines you wrote six months ago and don't know how to start fixing.

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