Category: Maintenance

Approaches to Deprecating Code in JavaScript

Recently, I had to dig into the topic of code deprecation in JavaScript. I feel like this topic gets less coverage even though it may a play key role in certain projects, especially when working in bigger teams or dealing with external APIs. In JavaScript-land, I don’t know of any true industry standards for depr...

On Style Maintenance

I was talking to a brilliant engineer friend the other day who mentioned they never get to build anything from the ground up. Their entire career has consisted of maintaining other people’s (often quite poor) code. In a perfect world, we’d all get to write code from scratch, it would work perfectly, and we ...