Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens
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from tedu@inks.tedunangst.com to inks@inks.tedunangst.com on 27 Jun 20:27
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from tedu@inks.tedunangst.com to inks@inks.tedunangst.com on 27 Jun 20:27
https://inks.tedunangst.com/l/5255
Speaker after speaker stressed development speed, including the ability to ship to mobile and desktop from the same React code. The implications for complexity-management and user-experience were somewhat less of a focus. As you might expect, putting 75% of the 3.5MB JS payload (15MB unzipped) in the critical path does unpleasant things to the user experience, but none of the dizzying array of tools involved in constructing bk.com steered this team away from user experience failure.
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