[lee101]

Inherited https://broadbandmap.nz/ the frontend was done by a external contracting company, the frontend looked like it should once i got it to run.

They gave us a stock rails CMS/static site generator that did the frontend part.

almost full rewrite as we where a Python shop and there was a mess of JQuery pubsub involved so you wouldn't know what was happening in what order or if there would be a bug because something wasn't subscribed to this event bus in time. almost goto level.

We met with the external company a few times and they made it clear to us they wheren't getting paid to fix tech debt or make the handover process smooth for us just that they where getting paid to make it look like the design.

This is actually a better state than the other projects i can think of, more because its a small project and the levels of technical debt are thus lower because theres not as much code/complexity, not that the code that is there was good.

All the tests where failing (very flaky by design, using browser driving to check for very specific parts of text on the page that had long been replaced), we also deleted all their tests/writ our own aswell as the almost full rewrite.