ITB 2023 Modernizing the App A tale from the trenches- David Paul Belanger.pdf

This talk focuses on a single CF project which started in 2006 and grew considerably over the years. This session talks about moving slowly towards API while maintaining the excellent SEO rate the client has achieved while maintaining a good UX.

1. Session
SESSION
Modernizing the App
LED BY
David Paul Belanger
A tale from the trenches

2. David Paul Belanger
SPEAKER AT ITB2023
Senior ColdFusion Developer, Bcom(MIS), EMBA
•ColdFusion Developer
•Francophone Canadian eh!
•Resident of Argentina
•Lucky husband
•Father of 4 highly active kids
•Movie buff

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Title if need it
What is legacy code?
Code that is based on previously accepted standards
Let’s start with one simple fact:
We are all writing legacy code!

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Let’s start with a
legacy developer
from the year
2000:

5. And now, let me tell you tale

6. The story so far
•Retail app created in 2004
•Niche market
•Secured Customer section
•Secured Site Owner section
•Secured Franchisee section
•Git since 2018
•Jira since 2019
•Maintaining a strong SEO is absolutely critical
•No access to the previous developer!

7. It’s time for some detective work

8. What do you see? What don’t you

9. What I saw
•Some sort of build process
(build/sources/assets)
•Grunt
•Gulp
•NPM
•Yarn?
•Apache .htaccess
•CFCs directory (com)
•Shared directed for cfincludes

10. What I didn’t see
•Readme.md
•Application.cfm(so it’s newish)
•Typical MVC directories
•Server.json
•“Tests” directory
•Dockerfile

11. Where do we go from here?
•CommandBox
•CF Framework
•API
•JS Framework
•CSS Framework
•Third-party APIs
•Docker

12. Key learnings
•Make the most of your readme.md
•Never rewrite the whole app
•Don’t jump into a framework before you
have a plan
•Don’t sweat the tag format
•Don’t erase comments if the code doesn’t
speak for itself
•Erase commented out code
•Feel free to move files to a better location
for better organization
•And one more thing….

13. Think security first!

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