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Making Twitter UI Infrastructure

Making Twitter UI Infrastructure

Overview of a work-in-progress effort to create generalized UI infrastructure for Twitter web applications.

Nicolas Gallagher

October 10, 2014
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  1. Why are we building apps from scratch* every time? *

    or cloning parts of each other’s apps
  2. “If HP knew what HP knows, we would be 3

    times more profitable. Lew Platt, former CEO of HP
  3. •UI components & automatic gallery. •Browser unit/e2e testing. •Asset deploy

    pipeline. •Localization. •Simple developer workflow.
  4. $ make install $ make build $ make test $

    make start $ make client-start $ make client-ui-module name="Icon"
  5. 1. Solve a known problem. 2. Focus on outcomes and

    processes. 3. Design for adaptability. 4. Components as the unit of scale. 5. Ready-made. 6. Use what is at hand. 7. Documentation & ownership.
  6. “…scientific and technical work is made invisible by its own

    success. Bruno Latour, philosopher and sociologist of science