Understanding the concept of code refactoring is one of the best things you can do to become a better programmer [1]. It all started a couple of weeks ago when I — once again — looked at the growing, stinky mess that my code has become. It’s a few thousand LOC app with various interactive widgets and controls all on one page. Even though a lot of functionality was encapsulated in these separately-defined widgets, the main “dashboard” object — a bootstrapper, so to speak — grew like a weed and became quite an abomination. It was time for refactoring. Every now and then I would clean things up. And so there I was, once again, trying to figure out where to start. One method was whopping 70 lines long. Another few of them — just below that giant — were doing one specific task and would be better off refactored into a separate module/widget/”class”/object. What are they doing in bootstrapper anyway? I scrolled a little further and witnessed more mess — long
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