Started just by building Chromium and Brave and poking around in there and making small changes.
Chromium is huge but has terrific documentation (once you find the current copy) and Google hosted code search. Digging through crbug.com often helped point us in the right direction.
2 unlocks that made us confident to pursue this project:
1) Repeatable way of patching Chromium and keeping up with upstream changes
2) Writing UI in web technology instead of C++ Views toolkit.
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Started just by building Chromium and Brave and poking around in there and making small changes.
Chromium is huge but has terrific documentation (once you find the current copy) and Google hosted code search. Digging through crbug.com often helped point us in the right direction.
2 unlocks that made us confident to pursue this project:
1) Repeatable way of patching Chromium and keeping up with upstream changes 2) Writing UI in web technology instead of C++ Views toolkit.
any interest in pointing someone curious about those repeatable patches in the right direction?
Brave's system for patching Chromium is great. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser