How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development
A friend called me last week. Someone who’d built web applications back for a long time before moving exclusively to backend and infra work. He’d just opened a modern React codebase for the first time in over a decade.
“What the hell is this?” he asked. “What are all these generated class names? Did we just… cancel the cascade? Who made the web work this way?”
I laughed, but his confusion cut deeper than he realized. He remembered a web where CSS cascaded naturally, where the DOM was something y...
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