maintenance

Recently, I had to dig into the topic of code deprecation in JavaScript. I feel like this topic gets less coverage even though it may a play key role in certain projects, especially when working in bigger teams or dealing with external APIs.

In JavaScript-land, I don't know of any true industry standards for deprecating JavaScript. It could be different per any team, library or vendor.

That’s why my goal here is to sum up my findings and thoughts on this topic, alongside some good practices when it’s time to mark a JavaScript method obsolete.

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Open source software is thriving. Large corporations are building on software that rests on open collaboration, enjoying the many benefits of significant community adoption. Free and open source software is amazing for its ability to bring together many people from all over the world, and join their efforts and skills by their interests.

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I was talking to a brilliant engineer friend the other day who mentioned they never get to build anything from the ground up. Their entire career has consisted of maintaining other people's (often quite poor) code.

In a perfect world, we'd all get to write code from scratch, it would work perfectly, and we would put it into a bin in the sky, never to be looked at by anyone again.

We all know that's not how it works. Code need to be maintained.

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