Best Practices for Code Refactoring with Copilot Chat
For legacy code maintenance challenges, GitHub Copilot Chat offers multi-dimensional optimization solutions:
- Batch reconfiguration commands: Type in the chat panel
/refactor"改进函数命名规范"The entire project can be scanned automatically - Architecture Recommendations: input "how to decouple the dependencies of this module", will be given a specific design pattern to implement the solution
- performance analysis: Ask the question "Detect the time complexity of this loop" to get suggestions for optimizing the algorithm.
- Stylistic uniformity: Use
/style"应用Google JavaScript规范"Auto Formatting Codes
Practical examples: For complex conditional judgment statements, Copilot can suggest converting to policy mode or state machine implementation, while keeping the unit test passed. It is recommended to try it in a small range of files first (press Ctrl+Z to undo), and then apply it globally after confirming the effect.
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