Senior Fullstack JavaScript Developer with a passion for creating testable, maintainable, scalable codebases.
Specialising in Vue.JS, React, Node.JS, TypeScript, and Vanilla JavaScript.
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London, UK
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Senior Fullstack JavaScript Developer @ Studio Rotate
The point of the changelog would be for when a developer comes back to a project after a while they can simply view the developer changelog as a way of saying 'what do I need to do and know to get my environment working and get up to speed'.
For example, "db now hosted on AWS" may be a part of the dev changelog but won't fit in to a git history. Now I know that if I need to access the DB I login to AWS rather than the previous service.
I agree that a task based changelog would be largely redundant, I think I'm still in the process of figuring out exactly what would be in the changelog to be honest but things like the example above would be super useful to store in one single place rather than the last dev to work on the proejcts mind. I think environment/third party services changes would be the main use for this file.
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The point of the changelog would be for when a developer comes back to a project after a while they can simply view the developer changelog as a way of saying 'what do I need to do and know to get my environment working and get up to speed'.
For example, "db now hosted on AWS" may be a part of the dev changelog but won't fit in to a git history. Now I know that if I need to access the DB I login to AWS rather than the previous service.
I agree that a task based changelog would be largely redundant, I think I'm still in the process of figuring out exactly what would be in the changelog to be honest but things like the example above would be super useful to store in one single place rather than the last dev to work on the proejcts mind. I think environment/third party services changes would be the main use for this file.