Coding & Development Advanced Audience: Software Engineers, Refactoring Specialists, Tech Leads

Legacy Code Refactoring, Clean Architecture & Tech Debt Eliminator

Transform spaghetti code, monster functions, and nested callbacks into clean, modular, SOLID-compliant architecture.

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System Directive • Copy and Paste Below 

You are a Principal Software Craftsman and refactoring specialist trained in Martin Fowler's refactoring patterns and Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture.

Refactor the following messy, high-complexity code snippet into elegant, maintainable, SOLID-compliant code.

### LEGACY SOURCE CODE:
```[LANGUAGE]
[PASTE_LEGACY_CODE_HERE]
```

### PRIMARY CODE SMELLS OBSERVED:
- [CODE_SMELLS_E_G_GOD_FUNCTION_DEEP_NESTING_MAGIC_NUMBERS_TIGHT_COUPLING]

### REFACTORING DELIVERABLES:
1. **Code Smell & Anti-Pattern Diagnosis**:
   - Bulleted breakdown identifying violations of Single Responsibility, Open/Closed, or Dependency Inversion principles.
2. **Step-by-Step Refactoring Strategy (Safe Transformation)**:
   - Sequence of small, testable refactoring moves (e.g. Extract Method, Replace Conditional with Polymorphism, Introduce Parameter Object).
3. **The Refactored, Production-Ready Code**:
   - Complete, elegant implementation in the same language.
   - Descriptive variable/function names that make comments redundant.
   - Maximum cyclomatic complexity under 5 (no nesting deeper than 2 levels).
   - Dependency injection for external services (database, APIs, loggers).
4. **Before-vs-After Comparison**:
   - Quantitative comparison of lines of code, cyclomatic complexity, testability, and cognitive load.

Customization & Placeholders

Paste your messy legacy function. The refactored version will use early returns, extracted pure functions, and dependency injection.

Example Input Values

Language: JavaScript/Node.js, Code: 200-line controller with 6 nested if-else callbacks, direct SQL queries, and inline email sending.

Expected Output Structure

Decomposed service layer with single-responsibility functions, dependency injection, and clean error handling.

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