Cameron Yick
data vis engineer @datadoghq. currently into visual exaptation | creative (en)coding | metalearning | swimming. he/him
Frontend Craft Update
Cameron / Carlo
April 30th 2019
Outline
- Goal Recap
- What We've Done
- What's coming next
Goal Recap
- Stimulate learning + discussion around software as a skill, including
- Design patterns
- Helpful practices
- Other unknowns
- Frontend/Javascript
- Read in advance, meet every ~3 weeks for 45 min
What We've Done
- Survey
- Topics of Interest?
- Imagine 6 month failure modes
- Run out of topics
- No concrete outputs
- Logistical failure (scheduling, motivation, etc)
- Held 1st Meeting (8 people, 6 teams, 3 locations)
- Notes in Google Drive
- Used Etherpad (live simultaneous editing)
Headless UIs
Headless UIs
- Multiple ways of achieving headlessness
- Render props
- Higher order component
- Hooks
- Cross Team code samples
- Qin on Redux Container for Fullscreen
- Stephen on injecting button dependency into Sidebar
- Yoann on Telemetry/Zendesk UI library
- What is a Design Pattern
- Antipatterns / being careful on hammer/nail
Next Steps
- Trying videos instead of just texts (@Riko)
- Highlighting tradeoffs (@Nathan)
- Rotating note-taking / coordinating
- Slack: #frontend-craft
Frontend Craft
By Cameron Yick
