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What's your approach for understanding a big codebase?
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Get it up and running in a dev environment and start inserting changes to see what breaks where.
Revert and retry until you’ve learned where you’re supposed to be meddling.
Another big advantage of getting a dev environment setup is if you can get step by step debugging in place as well. You can then use that to follow the trail of a user action from the UI triggers all the way down.