How to introduce new technology at work (and why you maybe shouldn't)
summary
A React team builds a customer-facing JavaScript widget in Svelte to avoid runtime React dependencies, keeps logic in TypeScript, uses Cypress for tests, and ships one wizard step as a gate; the result is usable from non‑React sites and the team keeps Svelte. A prior F# experiment wastes a month and gets scrapped. Key concrete wins are Svelte widget with zero runtime deps, backup plan: revert to React, and Cypress tests and documentation.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:39Why new tech is hard
- 3:43Convincing your team
- 5:05Avoid rushing
- 6:50Backup plan
- 8:37Five-point guide
- 10:00Svelte vs React case
- 13:33Documenting changes
- 17:22When new tech fails
- 21:15Conclusion
