The Over-Refactoring Trap: When to Refactor and When to Stop
Disclaimer: This post is based on my personal opinions and experiences, and I might be wrong. Your perspective or experience might differ, and I’m open to learning from constructive feedback and discussion. In the early days of my career (around 5 years ago), I was tasked with building a simple social media mobile app in Flutter. I developed the application to MVP version, and along the way, I refactored every single widget with the intention of acheiveing “clean code”. I was obsessed with DRY principle and created countless reusable code blocks, all to avoid rewriting the same code. ...