Refactor impactfully
Read OriginalThis article provides principles for effective refactoring, advising developers to focus on changes that deliver customer value and avoid mixing refactoring with hotfixes. It uses a restaurant kitchen analogy to explain technical debt and argues against purely cosmetic refactors (like replacing axios with fetch) in favor of impactful improvements that benefit both users and maintainability.
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