Hello, I used to build very large JavaScript applications. I don’t really do that anymore, so I thought it was a good time to give a bit of a retrospective and share what I learned. Yesterday I was having a beer at the conference party and I was asked: “Hey Malte, what actually gives you the right, the authority, to talk about the topic?” and I suppose answering this is actually on topic for this talk, although I usually find it a bit weird to talk about myself. So, I build this JavaScript framework at Google. It is used by Photos, Sites, Plus, Drive, Play, the search engine, all these sites. Some of them are pretty large, you might have used a few of them.

Slide text: I thought React was good.

This Javascript framework is not open source. The reason it is not open source is that it kind of came out at the same time as React and I was like “Does the world really need another JS framework to choose from?”. Google already has a few of those–Angular and Polymer–and felt like another one would confuse people, so I just thought we’d just keep it to ourselves. But besides not being open source, I think there is a lot to learn from it and it is worth sharing the things we learned along the way.

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So, let’s talk about very large applications and the things they have in common. Certainly that there might be a lot of developers. It might be a few dozens or even more–and these are humans with feelings and interpersonal problems and you may have to factor that in.

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