Betterer: Incremental Improvement
summary
Claims an incremental, test-driven migration workflow works: represent code as data, write a fitness function that outputs a serializable snapshot, store it as a results file, and use a comparison to require regressions to fail CI. Demonstrations use glob/fs to count .js files, integrate with TypeScript/eslint/jest/axe, offer a VS Code extension, show a manager adding a file (count rises) and teammates fixing two files (count drops), with an update flag and a strict mode to control overrides.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 1:04Better Incremental Improvements by Craig Spence
- 2:26Top One Best Punk Rock Band of all Time
- 7:43Local Maximum
- 16:16Microservice Architectures
- 17:36Genetic Algorithm
- 18:44Selection Phase
- 27:59Test Function
- 30:42File Test
- 31:10Test File Result
- 36:02Angular Test
- 42:03Bundle Size
- 45:40How To Handle Merge Conflicts in the Better Configuration File
- 46:02Better Emerge Command
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