Making it Better without Making it Over

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1. Making It Better 

   Without Making It Over
   Rebecca Murphey @rmurphey
   Dinosaur JS / June 2016
   

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23. 0
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    2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
    JS Lines of Code
    

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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
    

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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
    

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45. Every technology
    decision is eventually
    regrettable.
    

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46. Framework 

    or no, JS growth 

    is unbounded in the 

    absence of constraints.
    

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47. Education is a 

    powerful enabler 

    of improvement.
    

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48. Building 

    for the web

    is better today.
    

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49. I help

    people

    get
    jobs.
    @rmurphey rmurphey.com
    

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