https://phosphorbbs.net/tags/refactoring/ Recent content in Refactoring on Phosphor BBS Hugo en-us Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://phosphorbbs.net/blog/designing-reusable-config-screens/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://phosphorbbs.net/blog/designing-reusable-config-screens/ <p>Every config screen in Phosphor BBS used to be a snowflake. SystemConfigScreen had its own layout. AiConfigScreen had its own layout. They looked different, behaved differently, and shared no code. Adding a new settings screen meant copying one of them, stripping out what you didn&rsquo;t need, and writing the rest from scratch.</p> <p>This is the story of how we fixed that — extracting a reusable <code>TableConfigScreen</code> parent class and converting every config screen to the same table-based layout, killing about 150 lines of boilerplate in the process.</p>