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Discussion on: How do you get back into a side project after months?

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Michael

Something that helps is, depending on the project, using what I've learned to rebuild it and make it more relevant or up to date. I've been taking some old smaller snippets I started on Codepen to practice modern frameworks like React or Vue. I had an old project I was working on in LAMP and converted it to MERN. I feel doing this makes it all very exciting and I can still re-use the design I've already built and rebuild the structure.

A lot of people are saying documentation. Lately I have been not documenting my code. In particular I have been trying this with my library, I have a docs/ folder dedicated to function specific pages showing example code and a link to a Jasmine unit test for that function. If I make changes I need to update the pages individually, but it feels less messy this way.

Also a lot of the need & desire others have commented, starting over, refactoring, one guy said taking what works and starting with a new architecture.