The #1 tip to familiarize with new JavaScript codebases

Kevin Peters
Level Up Coding
Published in
9 min readMar 18, 2021

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In my years as a software engineer, I have probably looked at hundreds of codebases. Too many to count. I struggled a lot with understanding where the relevant code is most of the time. Normally, asking for help what I should look for and guidance in tickets will bring me forward. Slowly and surely I will understand what the code is doing. And you will too. Some people are better at this and…

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