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Refactor 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 for environmental sustainability

Copilot-Chat can suggest ways to make code more environmentally friendly.

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.

Translating code to a different programming language

Copilot-Chat can help you rewrite code to perform the same operations but in a different programming language.