Tech Stack and Workflow at Escape The City

A short intro to our tech stack and workflow at www.escapethecity.org - a career change platform for ambitious professionals with +190.000 users. Including two thoughts on why we are moving away from Angular and Backbone towards React.

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1. Stefan Ritter @stefanritter Tech-Stack & Workflow
2. 1. Introduction 2. Stack 3. Workflow 4. 2 Thoughts on Choosing a Front-end Framework
3. We help +190,000 talented professionals start businesses and pursue meaningful career paths. Opportunities | Education | Community
6. Stack
7. escapethecity.org escape.co
8. escapethecity.org escape.co pre-compilers
9. Workflow
10. Agile Workflow - 6 weeks plan - 1 week sprint - Stories (no points) - Bug Board (urgent, important, not im, not ur) - Morning Stand-up (unblocking) - End of day demo on staging
11. Scrum board
12. Git workflow - Master is deployed to production once a day - Master is tested and deployed to staging on every push (CI) - Work in master or private branch
13. Continuous Integration: snap-ci.com
14. 2 thoughts on choosing a front-end framework
15. 1. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) 2. Mental overhead
16. SEO = server-side rendering
17. Mental overhead Backbone: MVC Angular: MV* React: Components + State
18. Stefan Ritter @stefanritter