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It’s like dealing with the old Angular 1 and Meteor projects from 2015

Those are actually easy. The ones using the first versions of React with custom state management and weird conventions however, are a different story.

Those, and debugging jQuery UI problems.

I digress but in my career of using every technology possible, the pain I had debugging a huge (HUGE) jQuery UI project could perhaps only be matched by trying to make NHibernate (Hibernate ORM but for .NET) behave in some complicated (but CRUD after all) data-heavy projects.

JqueryUI… that’s a blast from the past. I’m guessing it’s still used out there.

Yes. Perhaps not in the public web but there are so many internal tools using it. It has a lot of issues but the average jQuery UI project is so old that some users will actually complain if you fix bugs because it breaks their workflow (speaking from personal experience)(there was an xkcd for this I think).

NHibernate, the codebase must have been ancient. What is surprising it is still actively being maintained but the documentation examples look just as old and alien.

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