November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
3h 6m
English
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Chapter 1. Refactoring and Architecture
This is the starting point of our CSS refactoring journey. In this chapter we’ll learn what refactoring is and how it relates to software architecture. We’ll also discuss the importance of refactoring and some of the reasons why your code might need it, and we’ll also work through two refactoring examples to drive these concepts home.
What Is Refactoring?
Refactoring is the process of rewriting code in order to make it more simple and reusable without changing its behavior. It’s a vital skill to have if you’re writing code because you will have to do it at some point, whether you want to or not; you may have even already refactored code without realizing it! Since refactoring doesn’t change the code’s behavior it’s understandable to wonder why it’s even worth doing in the first place. However, before that question can be answered it’s important to understand what software architecture is.
What Is Software Architecture?
Like a living creature, a software system is usually comprised of many smaller pieces that specialize in doing one particular thing. When combined, these smaller pieces work together to create the larger software system. Software architecture is the term used for describing how all of the pieces of a software project fit together.
Every piece of software, from a simple website to the control system in a spacecraft, has an architecture, whether it’s intentional or not. However, the best architectures are usually planned ...
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