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Making it Better without Making it Over

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June 24, 2016
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Making it Better without Making it Over

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Transcript

  1. Making It Better 
 Without Making It Over Rebecca Murphey

    @rmurphey Dinosaur JS / June 2016
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  23. 0 3500 7000 10500 14000 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

    2013 2014 2015 2016 JS Lines of Code

  24. Choose-your-
 own-adventure
 architecture

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  26. It’s easy to feel 
 like the only way 


    to make things better 
 is to start over.
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  28. a single, central source of state

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  31. 40 arguments

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  33. 2 arguments models

  34. guardrails

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  36. instrumentation

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  38. package.json

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  40. crafting our deployment a performance-minded build

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  44. It’s unrealistic for you […] 
 to learn a framework

    
 that solves a problem 
 you’ve never experienced. 
 Tessa Thornton,
 How to Learn Web Frameworks https://medium.com/shopify-ux/how-to-learn-web-frameworks-9d447cb71e68

  45. Every technology decision is eventually regrettable.

  46. Framework 
 or no, JS growth 
 is unbounded in

    the 
 absence of constraints.

  47. Education is a 
 powerful enabler 
 of improvement.

  48. Building 
 for the web
 is better today.

  49. I help
 people
 get jobs. @rmurphey rmurphey.com