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What's your approach for understanding a big codebase? (self.experienced_devs)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by alexdeathway to c/experienced_devs

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understanding a big codebase you have never worked.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Pick a small bug or feature from the backlog and fix it. First iteration of a fix is probably shoehorned in there, then I try to adapt the fix to the code base. Matching the style and design of the code base is more important than my own preferences.

I'm a learn by doing kind of person.