Migrating Legacy Code Just Got Easier

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. 🔥 Be the ~18,300th person to join our super tasty newsletter https://bit.ly/syntax_snackpack (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 All links available at https://syntax.fm/992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: https://x.com/syntaxfm Scott: https://x.com/stolinski Wes: https://x.com/wesbos CJ: https://x.com/CodingGarden Randy: https://www.youtube.com/@randyrektor http://www.syntax.fm Brought to you by Sentry.io #webdevelopment #webdeveloper #javascript #syntax #syntaxfm #webdev