May 14, 2020 7 min read @Christine Lee A Day in the Life of a Frontend Product Engineer at Slack 6:45am The sound of coffee grinding wakes me up 15 minutes before my alarm. I’m not a morning person, but I…
June 18, 2020 8 min read @Anuj Nair Gantry: Slack’s Fast-booting Frontend Framework At any given time, Slack has many product teams working on different features. This allows us to build in…
June 30, 2020 6 min read @Garrett Miller@Zack Sultan The Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit This post was co-written with Zack Sultan, Lead Product Designer at Slack In 2016, Slack was two years old and…
June 23, 2020 10 min read @Mark Christian@Johnny Rodgers When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite your code from scratch, and that’s good advice. Time…
June 23, 2020 17 min read @Trish Ang How to Fail at Accessibility Hi everyone! My name is Trish, a.k.a. @feesh on the internet, and my pronouns are she/her. Presently, I’m a…
June 24, 2020 14 min read @Rowan Oulton Keep webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its…