I Built a Frankenstein: Three Migration Stories

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Talk presents three real migration stories of frontend apps and compares approaches: full rewrite vs incremental “piece-by-piece” migration. It explains using microservice-style frontends, framework-agnostic migration, and web components to isolate CSS/JS and avoid global-scope conflicts, showing architecture decisions, trade-offs and outcomes.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:14Rewrite vs gradual migration
3. 12:34Angular and Polymer mix
4. 18:53Migration theory
5. 29:25Migration demo
6. 55:57Frankenstein approach potential
7. 1:02:00Q&A

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