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Making It Better 
 Without Making It Over Rebecca Murphey @rmurphey UpFront 2016 Manchester, UK

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0 3500 7000 10500 14000 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 JS Lines of Code

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Choose-your-
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It’s easy to feel 
 like the only way 
 to make things better 
 is to start over.

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a single, central source of state

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40 arguments

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2 arguments models

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guardrails

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source maps

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instrumentation

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package.json

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crafting our deployment a performance-minded build

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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

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Every technology decision is eventually regrettable.

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Framework 
 or no, JS growth 
 is unbounded 
 without constraints.

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Education is a powerful enabler 
 of improvement.

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Building 
 for the web
 is better today.

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I help
 people
 get jobs. @rmurphey rmurphey.com