From the course: Inclusive Tech: Conducting Humane Code Reviews

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Tools of objectivity

Tools of objectivity

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Tools of objectivity

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- [Instructor] Objective code review comments are easier to write if you just let the robots take over. No, not like that. What I mean is, use automated tools to your advantage. Let's start with the code review comments developers despise receiving the most. Those pesky styling and formatting issues. With so many plugins, add-ons and services whose sole purpose is to fix, or at least warn you of these very issues, picking and choosing a few to integrate into your development workflow is worth considering. Robots taking over means making ESLint, a pluggable JavaScript Linter, a required dev dependency in your JavaScript projects. And setting up some lint rules that your whole team agrees with. Robots taking over means using things like Prettier, an opinionated code formatter to format your code while you're working on it way before it ever reaches a code review. Using some of these tools is a common strategy with…

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