Building a Greenfield Frontend App
Kelly had an opportunity to work on a new frontend application. The challenge with any new code base is that there are no existing decisions or constraints to leverage and every decision has to be made.
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Summary
Kelly started the presentation describing the work done by Prospector Theater and the type of application she was building for them.
This was a greenfield project and there were a lot of decisions to be made. Kelly described why she chose to avoid using third parties whenever possible, though some exceptions were made such as React. Given the nature of the application, accessibility was always top of mind.
Topics discussed:
- The costs and benefits of using third parties.
- Handling accessibility concerns
- Whether frontend and backend work should be done exclusively by frontend and backend developers
- React state management
- What is the simplest way to do state management in React?
- Is Redux worth the complexity?
- How to use React Query and GraphQL effectively
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