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Rewrite or Refactor? How to Safely Move Legacy Apps to Modern Frameworks

watch on portal.gitnation.org ↗https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/rewrite-or-refactor-how-to-safely-move-legacy-apps-to-modern-frameworks
Talkat JSNation 2026 · on Monday, 2026-06-15· at 20:05· [frontend-architecture]

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name:Sylwia Laskowska
github:sylwia-lask

resources

video:https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/rewrite-or-refactor-how-to-safely-move-legacy-apps-to-modern-frameworks
slides:none on file

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Covers strategies for migrating frontend applications from legacy code to modern frameworks, comparing full rewrites versus incremental migrations. Uses real-world large-scale migration stories to illustrate risks like development freezes and maintaining parallel stacks, and presents decision criteria for choosing between the two approaches.

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