– jump24.co.uk - submitted by jamie peters – Edit
We all strive to write good code when we jump onto a project but sometimes do you wonder why?
The post covers
The techniques here are useful for all level of developers and worth a quick skim over as we all nothing wrong with a quick refresher
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– acairns.co.uk - submitted by Andrew Cairns – Edit
Explains what the Code Smell 'Primitive Obsession' is, the damage it can cause to your codebase, how to spot it and - how to fix it!
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– lukapeharda.com - submitted by Luka Peharda – Edit
Read how I fixed performance issues when refactoring and optimising legacy code with method signature inconsistency, done unintentionally by developer
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– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta – Edit
In this post, Andrew presents several patterns in polymorphic database relationships in Laravel that allow us to eliminate conditionals.
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A nice refactor from Aaron Francis
I'm always on the lookout for a good "make more things the same" refactor and I just found one!
— Aaron Francis (@aarondfrancis) March 8, 2023
Make your life easy, make more things the same. pic.twitter.com/tQfnqSZ84u
– medium.com - submitted by CODE AXION – Edit
I have described where to put your scopes if your model is cluttered with 10 + scopes
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Some more live coding! Here's Caleb refactoring away some nasty conditionals
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As a system evolves, abstractions should arise from current needs, not future possibilities.
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– tomasvotruba.com – Edit
Thomas Votruba explains how you can go about this.
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– tomasvotruba.com – Edit
Tomas Votruba explains how you can refactor old enum classes (from Spatie and MyCLabs) to native PHP enums
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– laravel-news.com – Edit
Laravel gives you the flexibility to choose the structure of controllers yourself, which is both a blessing and a curse. You won't find any recommendations in the official Laravel docs, so let's try to discuss various options, based on one specific example.
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– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg – Edit
DRY up code by deferring specifics to a callback.
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by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Using else often encourages complexer code structure, makes code less readable. In most cases you can refactor it using early returns.
by Adriaan Marain – 3 minute read – Edit
Ray is an app we built at Spatie to make debugging your applications easier and faster. Being web developers, we naturally decided to write this app in Electron, which enabled us to move from nothing to a working prototype to a released product on 3 separate platforms within a matter of weeks.
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Here's the recording of an excellent talk by Matthias Noback given at Socrates.
– afilina.com – Edit
Anna Filina shares how she goes about organizing small functions.
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– laracasts.com – Edit
In this blog post, Jeffrey Way explains why and how he refactored Laracasts from a traditional server rendered app to an SPA using Inertia.
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by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Most developers have probably seen some complex conditionals in legacy code. In this video I show you how to refactor those.
With the launch of the Inertia Vue 3 0.3.0 release, however, the boilerplate required to create forms was drastically reduced.
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