Kevin Yank shares the challenges Culture Amp faced when scaling Elm & React with a Design System team in the middle, and how an acquisition tipped the ultimate decision to move Elm from “adopt” to “contain” at the company.
Oh yeah, and there’s a new host, Jared M. Smith...stay tuned for more episodes!
Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.
Music by Jesse Moore.
Recording date: 2023.04.06 (07 on Kevin’s side of the world.)
Guest00:01:03 Some of Kevin’s contributions to Elm
00:01:45 History of Elm at Culture Amp
00:04:49 "Why didn’t you just…"
00:05:54 The exciting challenge: styling Elm
00:10:50 Sharing a design system
00:13:48 Design System team challenges
00:16:30 Acquiring a large React codebase
00:17:24 Upgrading to Elm 0.19
00:19:24 Momentum before the acquisition
00:24:12 Communicating the decision to “contain” Elm
00:32:43 An alternative reality with Elm for Culture Amp
00:42:26 How Elm changed the way that the teams at Culture Amp work
00:44:34 Elm as a secret weapon for recruitment
00:48:00 “Why didn’t you just use web components?”
00:49:25 Kevin's blog post
00:55:56 Success, or how never adopting Elm at Culture Amp would be worse
00:59:34 Take responsibility for user experiences
01:00:23 Reminiscing on past episodes
01:06:15 Elm Radio rocks!
01:08:10 Thanks
Elm Town 16 - Elm Conf US with Brian Hicks and Luke Westby
Elm Town 15 - Spotlight on Hardy Jones
Elm Town 15 - Preroll and Correction
Elm Town 14 - Spotlight on Kevin Yank
Elm Town 13 - History of Ports
Elm Town 12 - History of Records
Elm Town 11 - History of Signals
Elm Town 10 - About being "in production"
Elm Town 9 - Getting Started
An Excerpt Cut from Episode 8 - Talking about Haskell
Elm Town 8 - Testing
Elm Town 7 - Remote Data with Kris A. Jenkins
Elm Town 6 - The Founding Story
Elm Town 5 - Version 0.18 is released!
Elm Town 4 - Javascript interoperability
Elm Town 3 - JSON decoders
Episode 2 - The Update Function
Elm Town 1 - Editors
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