Putting It All Together: Code Reviews
Explore how to integrate automated consistency checks and effective code reviews to ensure clean, maintainable Elixir code. Understand the importance of collaboration and mentoring in the review process, and learn best practices for providing constructive feedback and accountability to enhance team performance.
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All previous lessons in this chapter lead to the code review. Each section reinforces the others and paves the way for meaningful collaboration in the form of code reviews.
Authors have editors, builders have inspections, judges have appellate courts, and cosmetologists have oversight. Programmers, on the other hand, have none of these things. Although bad code often has serious real-life consequences (such as grounded planes or stolen identities), we don’t handle formal reviews very well as an industry. A healthy code needs accountability, and that requires many sets of eyes on the same code. Here’s the thing about code reviews though: good code reviews take effort, and inconsistent code provides friction that multiplies that effort.
Automating your consistency checks
Everything we’ve written so far builds up to writing the healthiest, most consistent ...