understanding a big codebase you have never worked.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • luciole (he/him)@beehaw.org
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      5 months ago

      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.