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WHAT MAKES A GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO A CODEBASE?

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Great contributions to a codebase prioritize well-tested features over rushed solutions, have TODOs and feature flags to manage ongoing work, and refactor existing code in-place whenever possible. New changes should be broken down into digestible pull requests. They should also have the same patterns and code style of the existing codebase.