Chapter 2. Tools
Automatic tools are a critical component of refactoring. Although you can perform most refactoring manually with a text editor, and although I will sometimes demonstrate refactoring that way for purposes of illustration, in practice we almost always use software to help us. To my knowledge no major refactoring browsers are available for HTML at the time of this writing. However, a lot of tools can assist in many of the processes. In this section, I’ll explain some of them.
Backups, Staging Servers, and Source Code Control
Throughout this book, I’m going to show you some very powerful tools and techniques. As the great educator Stan Lee taught us, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Your responsibility is to not irretrievably ...
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