Trevor Ewen Part 4 – Extending Code
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 libraries evolve. Every tool and platform handles these “hooks” differently. Therefore, we need... Read more
