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Refactoring with Codemods to Automate API Changes
As a library developer, you may create a popular utility that hundreds of thousands of developers rely on daily, such as lodash or React. Over time, usage patterns might emerge that go beyond your initial design. When this happens, you may need to extend an API by adding parameters or modifying function signatures to fix edge cases. The challenge lies in rolling out these breaking changes without disrupting your users’ workflows. Juntao Qiu begins an article to explain how we can use codemods to tackle this. Codemods are a tool automating large-scale code transformations, allowing developers to introduce breaking API changes, and refactor legacy codebases. more…
As a library developer, you may create a popular utility that hundreds of thousands of developers rely on daily, such as lodash or React. Over time, usage patterns might emerge that go beyond your initial design. When this happens, you may need to extend an API by adding parameters or modifying function signatures to fix edge cases. The challenge lies in rolling out these breaking changes without disrupting your users’ workflows. Juntao Qiu begins an article to explain how we can use codemods to tackle this. Codemods are a tool automating large-scale code transformations, allowing developers to introduce breaking API changes, and refactor legacy codebases.
