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> You’ve probably seen run-of-the-mill web applications with hundreds of direct dependencies This is one of the reasons I like working on legacy web apps. Othe
by irrational 4y ago
> You’ve probably seen run-of-the-mill web applications with hundreds of direct dependencies
This is one of the reasons I like working on legacy web apps. Other than maybe jquery, they typically don’t have any dependencies. It is so easy to follow the code logic because it is all right there and nothing is hidden 10 layers deep in dependency hell.
- Semaphor 4y agoI work on a legacy webapp (created 1996, updated to a more modern codebase in 2001), we even have closed source dependencies.