The First Engineer's Dilemma
summary
ReutersTV is a personalized video news app on iOS Android Apple TV and web and the first web engineer builds the web front end using React (no Flux/Redux), Less for CSS, Webpack as the build system and ESLint plus a Google-like JS doc style for consistency. Decision method centers on a four-quadrant evaluation weighing newcomer friendliness, sexiness, leader familiarity and production readiness. Result is a fast componentized app with a fluxless React stack that works well but provokes ongoing Webpack pain for the team.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:22The First Engineers Dilemma
- 2:07Types of Dilemmas
- 3:02Design
- 5:34Product Owners
- 6:59Technology
- 7:23New Technology Quadrant Theory
- 9:33CSS Preprocessing
- 10:15Choosing JavaScript Technologies
- 13:28Choosing Webpack
- 14:27Setting Good Standards
- 19:43Creating a Template
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