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Refactoring code

Discover ways that you can use GitHub Copilot to refactor your code.

Improving code readability and maintainability

Copilot Chat can suggest ways to make your code easier to understand and maintain.

Fixing lint errors

Copilot Chat can suggest ways to fix issues identified by a code linter.

Refactoring for performance optimization

Copilot Chat can suggest ways to speed up slow-running code.

Refactoring to implement a design pattern

Copilot Chat can suggest design patterns that you can use to improve your code.

Refactoring data access layers

Copilot Chat can suggest ways to decouple your data access code from your business logic, making an application easier to maintain and scale.

Decoupling business logic from UI components

Copilot Chat can help you separate your business logic from your user interface code, making it easier to maintain and scale your application.

Handling cross-cutting concerns

Copilot Chat can help you avoid code that relates to a concern other than the core concern of the method or function in which the code is located.

Simplifying complex inheritance hierarchies

Copilot Chat can help you to refactor code to avoid classes with multiple layers of inheritance.

Fixing database deadlocks or data integrity issues

Copilot Chat can help you avoid code that causes slow or blocked database operations, or tables with missing or incorrect data.