Learning the CEF internals
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 9:00 pmHello!
I don't quite know how to structure this post so bear with me... This has been puzzling me for several years now and I don't know how to tackle this issue, but I am hoping to get some answers / start a discussion that hopefully others might benefit of as well.
I have been developing C++ program using CEF for the last years now and it has been my main source of income these last years of my life.
Relevant or not, I have a master degree in computer science and I consider myself, well, an above average programmer, not the best, not the worst, but I get stuff done one way or another..
I know pretty well how to use CEF, but it has always perplexed me that CEF is a framework that I use on an almost daily basis yet I know very little or nothing about the CEF internals (basically what/how CEF operates behind the scenes..).
During all these years I have made "attempts" to try to dig a bit deeper into the CEF internals because, for instance, I would like to give back something to the community, by say, making some of my "dirty hacks" into a PR.
But everytime I try to deep dive into the CEF internals I am baffled by the complexity because it seems to me that in order to truely understand CEF one must in some sense understand a large chunk of Chromium which for me seems to be a momentous task and I sort of give up...
I would be very happy if people here could share their "strategies" / discuss how one should approach learning the CEF internals? Where should one begin? What was your strategy, how did you tackle / approach the big codebase? Does learning the CEF internals imply having a very deep understanding of the Chromium codebase? What is the "expected" hours one must invest before one even has a clue of what is going on (yes, I am very aware that this is hard to generalize..).
Please share your experiences, I would love to get some input from others..
I don't quite know how to structure this post so bear with me... This has been puzzling me for several years now and I don't know how to tackle this issue, but I am hoping to get some answers / start a discussion that hopefully others might benefit of as well.
I have been developing C++ program using CEF for the last years now and it has been my main source of income these last years of my life.
Relevant or not, I have a master degree in computer science and I consider myself, well, an above average programmer, not the best, not the worst, but I get stuff done one way or another..
I know pretty well how to use CEF, but it has always perplexed me that CEF is a framework that I use on an almost daily basis yet I know very little or nothing about the CEF internals (basically what/how CEF operates behind the scenes..).
During all these years I have made "attempts" to try to dig a bit deeper into the CEF internals because, for instance, I would like to give back something to the community, by say, making some of my "dirty hacks" into a PR.
But everytime I try to deep dive into the CEF internals I am baffled by the complexity because it seems to me that in order to truely understand CEF one must in some sense understand a large chunk of Chromium which for me seems to be a momentous task and I sort of give up...
I would be very happy if people here could share their "strategies" / discuss how one should approach learning the CEF internals? Where should one begin? What was your strategy, how did you tackle / approach the big codebase? Does learning the CEF internals imply having a very deep understanding of the Chromium codebase? What is the "expected" hours one must invest before one even has a clue of what is going on (yes, I am very aware that this is hard to generalize..).
Please share your experiences, I would love to get some input from others..