Ask HN: How do you discover features in unknown code bases?
by hvasilev on Hacker News.
I’m realizing that one of the reasons why I don’t do a lot of additional hobby programming is because I’m missing a fundamental skillset that I never developed (in a reliable way) over the years. I think I don’t know how to discover features that I’m interested in, in code bases that I’m unfamiliar with.
Example: In Chromium I want to find the algorithm that is building the DOM. I’m not sure if that is even part of the code base (https://ift.tt/zNxIvoA)
How would you personally approach this problem?