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Discussion on: How do you get familiar with a new codebase?

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Alex Smith

Business context and IDEs are great points!

Re: business context
It's funny you mention business context...closely related, I was just working on a bug where I found myself saying, "I'm not sure what use case is even possible to lead to this issue". The context is everything.

So that said, any ideas on how to bridge context with code for new hires beyond "vanilla" documentation? Or asking (read: low key bothering) more seasoned teammates?

Re: IDE
I tend to use VIM, but as soon as you mentioned IDE I could imagine where a heavier IDE would be very helpful for navigating the code. Maybe I'll try a heavier IDE for a bit πŸ€”