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Refactoring TypeScript

By : James Hickey
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Refactoring TypeScript

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Combining Refactoring Techniques

Imagine a business came to you and gave you some requirements for a new feature. This will require the ability to be able to create many different kinds of planes while being able to define all their possible parameters, such as the number of seats, whether there is a bathroom, and so on.

In the previous section, we created a factory function. Given these new requirements, our function might look like this now:

const createPlane = 
    (
        type: PlaneType,
        engine: IPlaneEngine, 
        hasFirstClass: boolean, 
        hasBathroom: boolean, 
        numberOfSeats: number
    ): Airplane => {
    const plane = new Airplane();
    plane.type = type;
    plane.engine = engine;
    plane.hasFirstClass = hasFirstClass;
    plane.hasBathroom = hasBathroom;
    plane.numberOfSeats = numberOfSeats;
    return plane;
}

When used, it might look like this:

const plane = createPlane(
    PlaneType.Passenger, 
    new PassengerPlaneEngine...