Hacking Without Being a Hack
summary
Shows how Polymer and web components turn a 3pm-on-Friday hackathon prototype into an extensible app by concrete techniques: use the app-toolbox (routing, layout, storage, offline), combine iron-pages with app-layout to avoid backend routing, avoid passing whole object lists to children to prevent duplicate models, and split work by feature to reduce merge conflicts. Anecdote from PennApps students demonstrates CSS encapsulation and modular elements actually speed delivery and make prototypes maintainable instead of throwaway hacks.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:10What is a hack
- 5:40Do not repeat yourself
- 6:56Pass only what you need
- 8:15Go full frontend
- 9:02Split by feature
- 10:30Have a beer
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