Onboarding into a new codebase 👋

Today's topic: Onboarding into a new codebase As a new hire / contractor for a freelance project From JP: Reviewing other people's PRs on a new codebase Submitting your first PR Understanding how data flows through the app I've found that the organization of the code and the quality of abstractions makes or breaks this point Ramping up complexity of feature stories that you can tackle. How do you get there? From John: First — Understand the domain, talk with team, read books, use competitor software, language in that domain. Then — Understand the software Read the Docs, all that you can get your hands on Review closed issues / tickets, try to understand the language /culture of the team Review the tests, this is a good place to start if there is any, especially integration or feature tests that are higher level Find the "God" objects if you can. Write docs as you go, great way to get it into your head Onboarding someone else onto a new codebase From JP Hiring contractors for a project Onboarding new hires Reviewing new hires' pull requests **it's own episode maybe? Code Review?** How do you onboard someone else? I think domain context is important From John Support the advise given above! It's just the reverse First: Domain Context Then — Provide Docs Tests Simple first issue Pair on the onboarding Dev's first PR VS sink or swim Try to demonstrate what tools and process you use in a project Picks JP: John: Rails View Components It's a new pattern in rails to produce reusable front end "Partials" but more abstracted and re-usable. This pattern plus stimulus.js is really magic.

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