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Recently, I found myself in charge of upgrading our Angular application from version 12 to 15. In my current role, which I've held for just over a year, most of my focus has been on the backend, and I hadn't even touched the frontend apps until now. I've got to be honest; this upgrade process turned out to be a tougher nut to crack than I initially thought. It's not a knock on the Angular team's Angular Update Guide, though; they did a solid job. The real challenge came from the fact that we had a bunch of custom-made components that didn't quite follow the best practices playbook.
However, my primary goal wasn't to fix all these linting errors, as I couldn't guarantee that doing so wouldn't introduce unforeseen issues. Instead, I chose to install husky and set up linting and automatic fixing exclusively for committed files. In cases where automatic fixing wasn't feasible, I encouraged the developers to follow the "boy scout rule" and address the errors they encountered. As I delved into these improvements, I also took the opportunity to seamlessly integrate and configure prettier alongside ESLint. After all, who enjoys scrolling through diffs or pull requests with only formatting changes? It just makes the code review process smoother and more pleasant for everyone involved.