JS and PHP code explainability and optimization using Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer offers a simple interface for achieving code explainability and optimization for both JS and PHP. For more details on explainability and optimization, please refer to Chapter 12.

To illustrate, I am going to use the previously auto-generated code during the PHP server-side end-to-end code creation task. As shown In the following screenshot, highlight the code, right-click to open the pop-up menu, select Amazon Q, and choose Explain for code explainability or Optimize for optimization recommendations.

Figure 6.13 – Prompt – JS and PHP program explainability and optimization

This will open up Amazon Q Developer’s chat-style interface to analyze the full code.

For explainability, Amazon Q Developer provides detailed information about each function and the overall code logic.

When it comes to optimization, Amazon Q Developer offers end...