Remix Bay Area at Solv

Join us for an awesome talk by Erik Thorelli, chit-chat about all things web, and enjoy some snacks and drinks.

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Solv, SF

760 Market St #1150

Tuesday

Tue, Mar 26

Talks

Erik Thorelli

Erik Thorelli

Engineering Leader

// TODO // FIXME: Real Strategies to Modernize a Legacy React Project

Or, “How to Do All The Things We Wish We Could Do to Improve a Legacy React Codebase but Never Get Around to Doing, in 43 and a Half Easy Steps

This talk is about practicalworking strategies for doing things like:

  • converting a big JS project to TS, without losing velocity
  • converting all old testing tools & patterns to modern ones, without losing coverage and confidence
  • integrating an app-wide design systemin a project that doesn't have one
  • migrate a monolith project repo into a modern monorepo
  • how to avoid the XKCD Standards trap when bringing in the new hotness
  • how to make the argument to management to spend time addressing tech debt
  • ...and maybe more if we have time

These strategies are based on a few different years-long projects and codebases as well as a over a decade of working with startups and spaghetti-code-is-why-we-cant-ever-release-stuff-fast-and-stable-please-help gigs.

Here's hoping this is the nerdiest, feel-good, everybody-can-(maybe-embarrassingly)-relate motivational story talk of the year.

About the Speaker

Erik Thorelli is an Engineering Leader at Cisco Meraki, leading the mobile engineering organization. He's been developing React and React Native apps for almost a decade, across many industries...and seem some stuff.

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