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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