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Refactoring TypeScript

Refactoring TypeScript

By : James Hickey
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Refactoring TypeScript

Refactoring TypeScript

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By: James Hickey

Overview of this book

Refactoring improves your code without changing its behavior. With refactoring, the best approach is to apply small targeted changes to a codebase. Instead of doing a huge sweeping change to your code, refactoring is better as a long-term and continuous enterprise. Refactoring TypeScript explains how to spot bugs and remove them from your code. You’ll start by seeing how wordy conditionals, methods, and null checks make code unhealthy and unstable. Whether it is identifying messy nested conditionals or removing unnecessary methods, this book will show various techniques to avoid these pitfalls and write code that is easier to understand, maintain, and test. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned some of the main causes of unhealthy code, tips to identify them and techniques to address them.
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Identification

Billion-Dollar Mistake

Did you know that the inventor of the concept of null has called it his Billion-Dollar Mistake (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare/)?

As simple as it seems, once you get into larger projects and code bases, you'll inevitably find some code that goes off the deep end in its use of nulls.

Sometimes, we want to simply make a property of an object optional:

class Product{
  public id: number;
  public title: string;
  public description: string;
}

In TypeScript, a string property can be assigned a null value.

But so can a number property!

const chocolate: Product = new Product();
chocolate.id = null;
chocolate.description = null;

Hmmm....

Example

That doesn't look so bad at first glance.

However, it can lead to the possibility of doing something like this:

const chocolate: Product = new Product(null, null, null);

What's wrong with this? Well...

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