I’m still looking into Amazon Assistant code a bit, and the overengineering level of this whole thing is astonishing. The UBPClient library is 760 kB of code which are duplicated all over the place. Merely for communication between different frames.
https://palant.info/2021/03/08/how-amazon-assistant-lets-amazon-track-your-every-move-on-the-web/
There are factories creating exactly one type of object. Superclasses with exactly one subclass. And lots of message serializers – one module for each type of message. Didn’t anybody think of generalizing message creation? But lots of pointless generalization here.
I keep looking for something making this considerably more advanced than the proxy modules I implemented for PfP (5 kB of code). Yes, somewhat pointless privilege checking – a trivial addition. Yes, publish/subscribe model for events – not a big deal either. Nothing there…
How did they end up with this? Just how? ðŸ˜