
Transitioning a Large Front-End Codebase to TypeScript ft. Priscila Oliveira and Mark Story – JSJ 498
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How to Maintain a Big Rewrite
"We love rewrites and with the false assumption that we can throw the old stuff away, which always ends up to be much more difficult than we anticipated," he says. "The reason the code is ugly is because hard to maintain is because of a bad technical decision" He adds: "You find that you need to migrate all the essential complexity and often there's quite a bit of it"
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