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How We Rewrote a 20K-Line Map Editor Without Breaking Everything
A team rewrote an interactive office map editor built on AngularJS and Fabric.js, replacing a 20,000-line TypeScript monolith with a modular architecture. The new design eliminated an infinite rendering loop and made adding features easier. The rewrite was driven by business needs for map drafts, safe publishing, and high-quality printing.
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A solid engineering case study, but the lessons (modularity, avoiding infinite loops) are standard practice—the real value is in the migration strategy, not the architecture itself.
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What We Learned Rewriting an Interactive Map Editor: Fabric.js, CORS, and 20,000 Lines of Legacy TypeScript →
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