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talk · March 2024

Should we care about codemods?

A talk on why codemods beat find-and-replace for changing code at scale, with three live transformers.

event
Tech talk
slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JXCEucKMg78p4Phcs8al9P2Qke37a8lEhvY7KxiF1lo/edit?usp=sharing

The slides walk through what an abstract syntax tree is, why tools edit trees instead of text, and three small jscodeshift transformers from the understanding-codemods repo.

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