SMRTR ProgrammingApr 17, 2025Daily.dev

How to Understand a New Codebase Quickly

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Explore an unfamiliar codebase by running it locally, using it normally, forming theories about its workings, and intentionally breaking it to test those theories, while adding debug statements and taking detailed notes throughout the process.

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