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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

The DEV.to codebase is my worst nightmare.

I keep telling people if you really want to validate your skills and prove to employers you can handle a real-world codebase to:

  1. Complete a medium size feature ticket on the DEV.to codebase
  2. Get that pull request merged and deployed.

Anyone who can accomplish that deserves a job 💯.

I'll give you an example. on the left we have DEV.to, on the right is what I'd expect a Rails codebase to look like. Maybe you'd have one additional custom directory in your app's directory, not 10+ 😱. This is one of the many obstacles you'll face on this codebase.

The DEV.to codebase is the greatest gift to developers to sharpen their skills. I wish they would contribute.

Working on the DEV.to codebase has brought back some older processes which I had put to the wayside. One thing I adopted that DEV.to does is CodeClimate and Dependabot.