Winning the Gold with Web Components
summary
USA TODAY builds a data-driven Olympics site with Polymer in 30 days, powering schedule, live results, medal tables and athlete bios across dozens of local domains via a component platform and Go backend. Early mistakes—too many and too-complex components, a hybrid TypeScript workflow, and naive HTTP/2 delivery—cause slow pages; targeted rewrites yield 10x speedups. Rollout is iterative, mobile-first and supports multi-site delivery, driving a 116% traffic lift over 2012 and comScore rank #2.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:04Platform and development
- 3:23Moving to web components
- 7:20Building the Olympics site
- 15:12Overcoming technical hurdles
- 22:03Outcomes and performance
- 26:01Future work and conclusion
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