Migrating forty Aura components without a freeze
The order we did it in, the compatibility trap that cost us a fortnight, and the numbers at the end.
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- Event
- India Dreamin'
- Date
- September 2025
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Audience
- ~180
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A case study rather than a tutorial: one real console, eleven weeks, no feature freeze, and an honest accounting of the two weeks we lost to a compatibility shim we should have avoided.
The single slide people photographed: Aura can contain LWC, LWC cannot contain Aura — which is the fact that dictates the entire migration order.
No video — the room had no capture setup, which I did not check beforehand and would check next time. The audio above survived on a lapel recorder.
The write-up covers the same ground: Migrating forty Aura components without a freeze.