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React.dev gets a lick of paint - and plenty of Codesandbox examples
React.dev - the library for web and native user interfaces - has a new look and a whole lot of new content.
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React.dev - the library for web and native user interfaces - has a new look and a whole lot of new content.
Defer, the background jobs as-a-service startup founded by French duo Charly Poly and Bryan Frimin, is now available as a public access product.
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We've all heard the story a gazillion times. In 2007 Steve Jobs didn't want app developers ruining the iPhone experience. So Apple shipped a mobile web browser instead, and the rest is history.
The technology industry’s buzzword du jour is “platform.” Conceptually, the idea of a “platform” is not new, but technology companies’ desire to become platform companies, and the number of new companies claiming their status as a “platform” has accelerated dramatically over the last few years.
In late 2016, whilst leading the Developer Platform team at Intercom, I published a blog post titled “Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile.” It quickly became the most-read post published on Inside Intercom that year, and generated a lot of debate — externally on Hacker News and Medium, and internally within Intercom.
