Trevor Ewen Part 4 - Extending Code

Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur · Jul 15, 2021 · 22m

We wrap up the Trevor Ewen interview series with a discussion of building libraries and extending code. While this is often a necessity, there are different ways it can be done to help separate your code from the core or to safely build on it. Your desired approach will vary by application and the customers involved.

Extending Code Safely

There is often a right way and a wrong way to extend code. We need to do this in a way that allows us to incorporate updates to the foundational source and not break our extensions. It is also helpful to refactor extensions into using core functionality as…