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The Self-PR - And How Your Team Can Benefit from Them

Shalanah Dawson on October 03, 2019

Before I ask for a review on a PR, I make sure that my code is production-ready and fully reviewed by me. I developed this mindset by having to rev...
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This is a really interesting and I think important point. I always try to review my own work, but normally within my IDE.
Conducting a review as if it was someone else's code, within your favourite code review tool should give you an outsider's perspective on your work. I am going to adopt this approach going forward.

Thanks Shalanah :)

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Tamara Temple

Great post, Shalanah!

Most of this is my personal practice, even on my side / learning projects. I've chatted with other team-mates about it as well; our current project tries to self-review before requesting a code review.

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Tamara Temple

p.s. - do I see a future lightning talk at JS MN? 😁

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Jesse Phillips

I think this is important and also why I recommend cleaning up history to