[fwip]

The lead paragraph is a bit worrying.

> Since July 2017, I’ve been leading the frontend rewrite of their flagship product. The codebase was at 16k LoC when I started. Since then, I’ve rewritten the various subsystems at least once (I'm looking at you generic form component). Now we hover around 45k LoC with most of the common SPA structures stabilizing. We are about a third of the way to completion.

I don't know if it's common for rewrites to triple the amount of code while being only 1/3rd complete, but it certainly doesn't feel like "these are the facts I should lead with."

Edit: I read more of the prologue, and it turns out that the initial 16kloc application was not complete.

[mordrax]

Correct, the initial 16k LoC was not complete. In fact ( no metrics ), I deleted large portions of redundant files/code and at one stage we were back at about 11k LoC.

The comment about 16k -> 45k LoC was to give an idea of how much we had added to the product over the last 10 months.

[georgeam]

It may be relevant that he applied elm-format to the codebase, apparently for the first time. elm-format puts very little code on each line and puts a lot of meaning into indentation, so that alone could inflate the LoC instantly without changing any semantics.