References — bi-01-navigating-chromium

Primary sources first. In-tree Chromium docs beat any external source, including these modules.

Authoritative, in-tree — read these in the tree, not in a blog:

  • third_party/blink/renderer/README.md — the core/modules/platform split, threading, type conventions. The single best orientation document in Blink.
  • third_party/blink/renderer/SpecMapping.md — specification → directory.
  • docs/ at the repo root — build, contribution, debugging, testing.
  • third_party/blink/renderer/core/css/README.md, style-calculation.md, style-invalidation.md — unusually good subsystem docs; you will use these in bi-07.
  • Any DEPS and OWNERS file in a directory you are studying.

External

  • Chromium Code Search: source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src
  • Google Code Search operator reference (for symbol:, class:, function:, case:, content:, comment:, usage:, pcre:yes, - negation, AND/OR).
  • Life of a Pixel (Chromium team talk, refreshed roughly annually) — the standard orientation to the rendering pipeline. Watch it once now, again after bi-09.
  • chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/README.md — index of in-tree docs.

Deliberately not on this list: blog posts explaining Blink internals. The half-life is under two years and the failure mode — a confidently stated stale path — is exactly what this module exists to inoculate against.

When a claim here proves stale, record it in PROGRESS.md section 7.