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by WayneDB 5260 days ago
Which javascript project did you work on that had several million lines of code?

If you can't tell us that, at least tell us what _kind_ of project it was please.

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I don't know what project the OP was working on, but right now I'm working on a crm/accounting/scheduling product with several hundred thousand lines of javascript code. Due to the modular nature of the code base, I don't see any reason why I can't break the million mark and keep going.

Although I probably won't. Because I don't have to.

Because unlike with a traditional code base, much of the functionality is provided by the browser (CSS, HTML, SVG, Canvas, Image Support, Geolocation, Storage, you get my point) and not by external libraries which add to the lines of code.

It was a product for IBM, a platform for NATO and the UN that consisted of several JavaScript platforms.