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What to do before refactoring

Seven critical things to keep in mind before starting your next refactoring project.

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Franco Fernando
Sep 19, 2025
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Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 140th issue of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

At some point, every programmer needs to work with code that makes them cringe. It could be a long function without any comments or a class that does everything except what its name suggests. Your first instinct might be to delete it all and start over with something clean and e…

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