Discussion on: Codebase is too large. Any tips on how you quickly understood existing codebase on your first job?

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sarjunan • Mar 19 '19 • Edited

Congrats, Here are my suggestions.

Understand the whole flow of application and just play around.
Try to debug code as much as possible and make a note of important areas.
Take a look at version control history. Most of the developers would have mentioned what the check-in is all about.
Don't be shy to ask questions to developers.

Take a look at below tutorials

laravel.com/docs/5.1/quickstart
github.com/bestmomo/laravel5-example

Ibrahim Alausa • Mar 19 '19

Thanks so much, @sarjunan...I really appreciate your advice. I'll check out the tutorials

rhymes • Mar 19 '19

I'd add: read the tests, they document how the various parts of the code work. If you're unsure how a method or a part of the code base works, try to read its test.

Ibrahim Alausa • Mar 19 '19

Thanks rhymes