Refactoring large JavaScript codebases | Michele Riva | jsday 2022

What happens if you're in a small team and need to refactor a huge JavaScript codebase? What if you have to upgrade your code following the latest ECMAScript specifications? Updating hundreds of thousands of files by hand seems not the best possible option, so here comes the concept of codemods. In this talk, we will see how JavaScript gets interpreted, transformed, and eventually compiled so that refactoring a large codebase won't be a problem anymore.

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[anythingforweb]

Nice video!
24:30 - Do not use template literals, is this bad?

[ManfredSpecht]

Nice video. Is there a chance, that you make the original code available for download, so I can make my hands dirty?