Just because it’s no longer supported doesn’t mean there’s not some poor intern refactoring spaghetti backend in a basement somewhere using it.
Not an intern, but this week I’ve unraveled some mysteries in ASP.NET MVC 5 (framework 4.8). Poked around the internals for a while, figured out how they work, and built some anti-spaghetti helpers to unravel a nested heap of intermingled C#, JavaScript, and handlebars that made my IDE puke. I emulated the Framework’s design to add a Handlebars templating system that meshes with the MVC model binding, e.g.
@using (var obj = Html.HandlebarsTemplateFor(m => m.MyObject))
{
Name: obj.TemplateFor(o => o.Name)
}
and some more shit to implement variable-length collection editors. I just wish I could show all this to someone in 2008 who might actually find it useful.
Hi, it’s me, the intern refactoring the spaghetti .NET core backend. I’m not in a basement though. AMA