DownTheRabbitHole.js – How to Stay Sane in an Insane Ecosystem
summary
Evaluation focuses on concrete choices and results: the project targets ES6 transpiled with Babel, bundled with webpack, using React + Redux + lodash for single‑page apps and react‑hot‑loader for fast feedback; tooling and scripts automate bootstrap, source maps, tests and deploys; the custom bootstrap tooling saved $50–60k for the company. Notes the npm Cambrian explosion and incompatible module formats, built a cross‑browser game called Space Forensics for NASA, and reports the stack worked while demanding continuous reevaluation.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25How we got here
- 8:13Cambrian Explosion
- 15:08Evaluate What Youre Building
- 17:52Quality of Libraries
- 19:51TypeScript
- 23:49Tooling
- 29:18Choosing a Library
- 33:07Small vs Big
- 34:50Smaller vs Larger
- 35:09Evaluating Documentation
- 37:58Functional Programming
- 42:38Other Great Libraries
- 44:12Conclusion
- 44:30Outro
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