Adam Wolff on debugging FB-Chat
Today Adam Wolff tweeted a story about deugging FB-Chat. He is a technical fellow at Electric Capital. Below is it. Before the major effort to redo the UI, FB Chat was super broken and we had no idea why. We didn’t know what was wrong, but we knew the code was a mess. We set about rewriting both the front-end and the back-end in an effort to fix it. The front-end rewrite pulled in a whole team of amazing engineers and became one of the big threads that led to reactjs....