understanding a big codebase you have never worked.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Look at the packages. Try to break it down into architectural layers. Understand in a broad sense what each layer adds to the one before. Rage that it wasn’t so much architected as cobbled together from pieces never designed to fit together. Decry it as total garbage and recommend total rewrite.