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Functional Reactive Programming
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Functional Reactive Programming

by Stephen Blackheath
July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 26m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 13. Refactoring

This chapter covers

  • A drag-and-drop example
  • Adding some features
  • Contrasting refactoring between OOP and FRP code

In your job as a programmer, you’ll often add a feature or fix a bug by adding extra code to a class or method. As the code gets longer, it can get messier. In this chapter, we’ll illustrate that process by example.

As the Agile software development methodology emphasizes, when you start to smell that “code smell” of untidy code, it’s usually a good idea to refactor the code by breaking the class or method into smaller pieces. This is important because messy code is complex code, and we’ve argued that complexity can compound. We’ve also argued that this should be less of an issue in FRP due to its compositionality, ...

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