{"id":94,"date":"2018-02-12T01:44:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T01:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/?p=94"},"modified":"2019-06-15T20:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T20:45:05","slug":"4-1-to-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/2018\/02\/12\/4-1-to-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"4.0.1 to 5.2: Reflecting on my first 2 years with Ulta Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our latest release we added support for iOS11 and the iPhone X, a major milestone for our development team. With that release I thought it was important to take a look back and see just how much the app [and team] has changed in my time at Ulta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Initiatives:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cleaned up, simplified, and modernized the codebase. Established a cadence for structuring code aimed for readability and understanding with emphasis on in-line comments explaining business logic. In most cases I tell my developers to structure their code linearly so that it mirrors what&#8217;s being displayed.<\/li><li>Identified redundancy in models\/views and consolidated<\/li><li>Removed all non-essential third party code (that isn&#8217;t mandated by business partners)<\/li><li>Banned the use of cocoa pods and dependency managers.<\/li><li>Removed all unused and old assets \/ converted new assets to PDF (vector)<\/li><li>Created a &#8220;Core&#8221; which handles all our application\/session\/configuration management, as well as contains our own web services client<\/li><li>Established rules on native first UI\/UX patterns with creative partners and an understanding of maintaining code over time e.g. I don&#8217;t want to be fixing custom controls with each OS release.<\/li><li>Compartmentalized storyboards based on features [performance\/readability]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*It&#8217;s important to note that the above initiatives reflect my viewpoint on how a large enterprise project with multiple [sometimes fluid] team members should be treated. When creating my own apps I have similar from different goals and I can take certain liberties knowing only I will be maintaining the code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The screenshots below are a few examples of said changes. On the left is version 4.0.1, the app I inherited when I started, and on the right, 5.2, our latest release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"802\" height=\"6097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/compare-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/compare-4.png 802w, https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/compare-4-768x5839.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest release we added support for iOS11 and the iPhone X, a major milestone for our development team. With that release I thought it was important to take&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/2018\/02\/12\/4-1-to-5-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ulta","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nleby.com\/longform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}