@alexdeathway to Experienced Devs • edit-24 months agoWhat's your approach for understanding a big codebase?message-square16arrow-up124arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your approach for understanding a big codebase?@alexdeathway to Experienced Devs • edit-24 months agomessage-square16file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•4 months agoGet it up and running in a dev environment and start inserting changes to see what breaks where. Revert and retry until you’ve learned where you’re supposed to be meddling.
minus-squareluciole (he/him)linkfedilink4•4 months agoAnother big advantage of getting a dev environment setup is if you can get step by step debugging in place as well. You can then use that to follow the trail of a user action from the UI triggers all the way down.
Get it up and running in a dev environment and start inserting changes to see what breaks where.
Revert and retry until you’ve learned where you’re supposed to be meddling.
Another big advantage of getting a dev environment setup is if you can get step by step debugging in place as well. You can then use that to follow the trail of a user action from the UI triggers all the way down.