Choosing a lateral migration path

Wes and Scott talk about migrating large codebases with AI — how to plan framework and language moves, establish patterns, handle templating changes, test thoroughly, safely deploy, and more.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:46 Why migrate to a new language or framework?
• 05:09 How to approach a large code migration
• 08:47 Establishing patterns before using AI
• 10:35 Moving from pug to JSX
• 12:06 Building a detailed migration plan
• 15:18 Testing every part of the application
• 15:51 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 16:58 Deploying and catching issues with Sentry
• 19:12 Converting express requests to web standard requests
• 19:34 Other codebases that could benefit from AI migrations
• 21:36 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

• Scott: WisprFlow
• Wes: displayplacer

Shameless Plugs

• Phases Podcast

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