Mozilla Addons - one of the oldest websites @ Mozilla has gone through major changes throughout its lifetime. Starting in ~2005, the site as been more or less maintained. Only in recent years, it got much more traction because of Firefox Quantum and Mozilla’s move to WebExtensions.
The talk will show our approach to maintaining very old code, balancing new features against code quality as well as technical debt.
Senior Web Engineer @ Mozilla
I’m Chris, currently working as a Senior Web Engineer at Mozilla for addons.mozilla.org. I’ve been working for lots of smaller and bigger companies throughout the years. I’m also actively working on many web-related open source projects.
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