Betterer

Incremental Improvement

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Hi, I'm Craig!

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Legacy

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Local Maxima

Desired state

Current state

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Why don't we rewrite the whole thing?!

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Revolution!

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Revolution...

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Branching!

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Branching...

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Automation

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Humans

Not obsolete yet!

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Evolutionary Algorithms

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A genetic representation of the solution domain:

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1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
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Chromosome

Population

Gene

Genetic Algorithms

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A genetic representation of the solution domain:

A fitness function to evaluate the solution:

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f(chromosome) => score

Genetic Algorithms

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Termination

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0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1

Crossover

1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

Offspring

0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0

Mutation

Genetic Algorithms

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Evolutionary Migration?

A fitness function to evaluate the solution:

f(codebase) => score

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Code as data

ts(codebase) => nCompilerErrors
eslint(codebase) => nLintErrors
axe(codebase) => nA11yErrors
jest(codebase) => coverage%

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f(oldScore, newScore) => better | worse | same

A comparison function to track progress:

Better?

f(codebase) => oldScore
f(codebase) => newScore

Old state of the codebase

New state of the codebase

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Codebase as database?

It has become common to store extra information about a codebase in the repository:

# THIS IS AN AUTOGENERATED FILE. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY.
# yarn lockfile v1

"@babel/code-frame@7.12.11":
  version "7.12.11"
  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/@babel/code-frame/-/code-...
  integrity sha512-Zt1yodBx1UcyiePMSkWnU4hPqhwq7hGi2nFL1LeA3EUl+...
  dependencies:
    "@babel/highlight" "^7.10.4"
// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
 
exports[`betterer should not stay worse if an update is forced 1`] = `
"// BETTERER RESULTS V2.
exports[\`tsquery no raw console.log\`] = { 
  ...
}
`

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Evolutionary Migration

A fitness function to evaluate the solution

A comparison function to track progress

A little file to store the results

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Betterer

Incremental Improvement

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// package.json
{
  "name": "@craig/my-very-stable-package",
  "version": "20.2.1",
  "author": "Craig Spence <craigspence0@gmail.com>",
  "description": "Gee I wish this package was a little bit better.",
  "scripts": {
    "betterer": "betterer",
    // ...
  },
  // ...
  "devDependencies": {
    "@betterer/cli": "^5.0.0",
    // ...
  }
}

Initialising

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// .betterer.ts
export default {
  // Add tests here ☀️
};

Initialising

// .betterer.js
module.exports = {
  // Add tests here ☀️
}

TypeScript by default:

JavaScript if you're into that:

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My First Test

// .betterer.ts
import { BettererTest } from '@betterer/betterer';


export default {
  'migrate JS to TS': () => new BettererTest({
    // ...
  })
};

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My First Test

// .betterer.ts
import { BettererTest } from '@betterer/betterer';
import glob from 'glob';

export default {
  'migrate JS to TS': () => new BettererTest({
    test: () => glob.sync('**/*.js').length,
    // ...
  })
};

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My First Test

// .betterer.ts
import { BettererTest } from '@betterer/betterer';
import { smaller } from '@betterer/constraints';
import glob from 'glob';

export default {
  'migrate JS to TS': () => new BettererTest({
    test: () => glob.sync('**/*.js').length,
    constraint: smaller
  })
};

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My First Result

// .betterer.results
// // BETTERER RESULTS V2.
exports[`migrate JS to TS`] = {
  value: `9`
};

This is basically the same things as a Jest snapshot file!

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// cool.js
export function ohBoyILoveJavaScript () {
  console.log(`I'll never change!!!`);
  return [1, 2, 3] + [4, 5, 6];
}

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My First  File Test

// .betterer.ts
import { BettererFileTest } from '@betterer/betterer';

export default {
  'migrate JS to TS': () =>
    new BettererFileTest(async (filePaths, fileTestResult) => {
      // ...
      // 
    }).include('**/*.js')
};

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My First  File Test

// .betterer.ts
import { BettererFileTest } from '@betterer/betterer';
import { promises as fs } from 'fs';

export default {
  'migrate JS to TS': () =>
    new BettererFileTest(async (filePaths, fileTestResult) => {
      await Promise.all(
        filePaths.map(async (filePath) => {
          const fileContents = await fs.readFile(filePath, 'utf8');
          const file = fileTestResult.addFile(filePath, fileContents);
          file.addIssue(0, 1, 'Please use TypeScript!');
        })
      );
    }).include('**/**/*.js')
};

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// BETTERER RESULTS V2.
exports[`migrate JS to TS`] = {
  value: `{
    "index.js:2978447364": [
      [0, 0, 1, "Please use TypeScript!", "177600"]
    ],
    "cool.js:3542870298": [
      [0, 0, 1, "Please use TypeScript!", "287364"]
    ],
    "amazing.js:8762519887": [
      [0, 0, 1, "Please use TypeScript!", "726351"]
    ],
    //...
    // 9 total issues:
  }`
};

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// BETTERER RESULTS V2.
exports[`migrate JS to TS`] = {
  value: `{
    "index.js:2978447364": [
      [0, 0, 1, "Please use TypeScript!", "177600"]
    ],
    "cool.js:3542870298": [
      [0, 0, 1, "Please use TypeScript!", "287364"]
    ],
    "amazing.js:8762519887": [
      [0, 0, 1, "Please use TypeScript!", "726351"]
    ],
    //...
    // 10 total issues:
  }`
};

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// BETTERER RESULTS V2.
exports[`migrate JS to TS`] = {
  value: `{
    "index.js:2978447364": [
      [0, 0, 1, "Please use TypeScript!", "177600"]
    ],
    "boo.js:1827649983": [
      [0, 0, 1, "Please use TypeScript!", "298736"]
    ],
    "gross.js:1872646688": [
      [0, 0, 1, "Please use TypeScript!", "009726"]
    ],
    //...
    // 8 total issues:
  }`
};

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More tests!

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Built in tests!

// .betterer.ts
import { angular } from '@betterer/angular';

import { eslint } from '@betterer/eslint';

import { regexp } from '@betterer/regexp';

import { stylelint } from '@betterer/stylelint';

import { tsquery } from '@betterer/tsquery';

import { typescript } from '@betterer/typescript';

December 2021

Betterer

Thanks!

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