Articles Tagged: refactoring
Technical writings, opinionated architectures, and development guides tagged with refactoring.
Every Feature Touches Ten Files
Ten files open for a one line change is either layering working correctly or one idea smeared across a codebase. The count does not tell you which, and git history does.
It Was Fine Until We Added A Second One
Every trigger in this series has been a second something. That is not a coincidence, and it is the only signal in here reliable enough to act on.
Nobody Wants To Touch That Model
Every Laravel codebase has a model people route around. Counting its lines is the least useful thing you can do to it, and extracting traits is how the count gets hidden rather than fixed.
The Interface With One Implementation
You added it so the thing could be swapped out later. Later arrived and nothing was. Counting implementations is the wrong test, and where the interface lives tells you far more.
The Job And The Controller Disagree
The same operation runs from two entry points and they have quietly drifted. In Laravel that drift has a predictable shape, because validation lives at the edge and only one edge has it.
The Rewrite You Should Not Do
You have run the diagnostics and you have a list. Now price the three options honestly, including the one where you do nothing, which is right more often than the other two put together.
Your Test Suite Is an Architecture Report
A slow Laravel test suite gets treated as a tooling problem. It is usually a coupling measurement, and the number worth watching is not how long the suite takes.
Strangling Procedural Legacy PHP into Laravel
Replace a procedural PHP monolith with Laravel one route at a time. Nginx ingress, session bridging that actually works, and Eloquent on a legacy schema.
Reducing code duplication
Learn to reduce code duplication in Laravel using artisan commands and services for better code quality.
Fun with Refactoring
Master the art of Laravel refactoring with Laravel Shift Blueprint, optimizing code for improved performance and management in a real-world Laravel project.