How do you work with UE4 in spite of its slow compile time and lack of documentation of coding c++?

[ExtraLifeMatt]

@Emaer

I will not agree. This may be true for small projects, but not for beasts like the UE4. Generally approach like this is harmful.
Source code and documentation are two different things.
Source code shows how the something works internally, give you all implementation details.
Documentation shows what a given thing is and how to use it.
Docs strip off all useless from user perspective things like private methods, helper structs, etc.

I think what Jamsh is saying is there are lots of examples of those systems being used in sample apps and throughout the engine. ShooterGame will show you have to build everything from a custom ReplicationGraph to how to do “syncd” RNG between client/server. Also menu flow and everything.

Documentation will never be able to keep up with all the changes to UE4. There’s some good core documents (the Actor Lifecycle for example), but anything that gets at a feature level tends to go out of date pretty quickly.