Articles like “Building a simple todo list with [framework or technology name]” won’t teach you how that framework or technology solves real-world problems and works at a large scale. This document is a curated list of technical talks and articles about real-world enterprise frontend development.

Table of contents

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- AdRoll
- Aha!
- Airbnb
- ALDO
- Algolia
- Artsy
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Badoo
- BBC
- Betty Crocker
- Bitmovin
- blogfoster
- Bloomberg
- Campaign Monitor
- Carbon Five
- Carousell
- cars.com
- Checkbot
- Clearleft
- Cloudflare
- Cloud Four
- CodeSandbox
- Condé Nast
- Conductor
- DAZN
- De Voorhoede
- DEV
- Discord
- Dropbox
- eBay
- Electronic Arts
- Ele.me
- Etsy
- Evil Martians
- ezCater
- Facebook
- fastq.bio
- Figma
- Financial Times
- Flickr
- Flipboard
- Flipkart
- Flocktory
- Futurice
- Garbarino
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Goibibo
- Google
- GOV.UK
- grammarly
- Gusto
- HealthCare.gov
- Heap
- in der Apotheke
- Infinite Red
- Insider Inc.
- Instagram
- Internet Archive
- Intuit
- InVision
- Khan Academy
- Kickstarter
- Klarna
- Line
- LinkedIn
- Lucidchart
- Lyft
- Mailchimp
- MDN
- Medium
- MemSQL
- Mercado Libre
- Microsoft To-Do
- Mixmax
- Mixpanel
- Mozilla
- Mud
- Myntra
- Netflix
- npm
- OK GROW!
- OYO
- Oyster
- Palantir
- PayPal
- Pinafore
- Pinterest
- Pivotal Tracker
- Plaid
- Plotly
- Product Hunt
- Quizlet
- Quora
- REA Group
- Reaktor
- Reddit
- Redmart
- repl.it
- Revolut
- Roompact
- Safety Culture
- Scratch
- Shopify
- Skillshare
- Slack
- Snipcart
- SoundCloud
- Spectrum
- Spotify
- Stack Overflow
- stripe
- SumUp
- Superhuman
- TakeShape
- The Guardian
- The Knot Worldwide
- The New York Times
- The Telegraph
- The Times & The Sunday Times
- The U.S. Digital Service
- The Wall Street Journal
- This Also
- ThomasNet
- Thread
- Tinder
- TinyMCE
- Treebo
- Tumblr
- Twitch
- Twitter
- Uber
- Udacity
- Unity
- Unsplash
- Verve
- Walmart Labs
- Wikimedia
- Wingify
- Wix
- Yelp
- YNAB
- YouTube
- Zajno
- Zynga
- 18F
- 1Password
- Miscellaneous
Russian
License

English

blogfoster

Bloomberg

How Bloomberg Used React Native to Develop its new Consumer App (December 15, 2016)

Campaign Monitor

Fixing bugs with Outlook specific CSS (November 9, 2016)
Better video previews for email (December 20, 2016)
How to test accessibility of emails (June 5, 2018)

Carbon Five

Cross-Domain Browser Window Messaging with HTML5 and Javascript (August 17, 2012)
Composing Synchronous and Asynchronous Functions in JavaScript (January 29, 2015)
An AJAX Auto-Save Implementation (January 24, 2018)

Carousell

How we made Carousell’s mobile web experience 3x faster (October 31, 2018)
Building a Dynamic UI System at Carousell (Feb/Mar 2019): part 1, part 2 and part 3
An Experiment with JSON Schema (April 18, 2019)

cars.com

How Cars.com Developer Mac Heller-Ogden Convinced His Bosses to Adopt Node.js (July 17, 2017)

Checkbot

Scalable & lightweight web screenshots with SVG (November 30, 2018)

Clearleft

How to use variable fonts in the real world (January 26, 2018)
A framework for web performance (September 20, 2018)

Cloudflare

How we built Origin CA: Web Crypto (May 10, 2016)
Open Sourcing CloudFlare’s UI Framework (June 8, 2016)
Going Global - a Localization Case Study at Cloudflare (August 23, 2017)
How we made our page-load optimisations even faster (February 2, 2018)
Real URLs for AMP Cached Content Using Cloudflare Workers (November 13, 2018)
Fast Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers (November 22, 2018)
Migrating to React land: Gatsby (March 26, 2020)
Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha (April 8, 2020)

Cloud Four

All Mixed Up: Isomorphic Sorting Gone Wrong (October 17, 2019)

CodeSandbox

Lessons learned refactoring Codesandbox.io from Redux to Cerebral (February 7, 2018)

Condé Nast

The Why and How of Google AMP at Condé Nast (August 29, 2017)

Conductor

Painless Migration From Backbone to React/Redux (February 16, 2018)

DAZN

Testing MobX State Tree (December 7, 2018)
Handling complexity in lambda functions (February 8, 2019)
Micro-frontends, the future of Frontend architectures (April 2, 2019)
Adopting a Micro-frontends architecture (April 8, 2019)
Orchestrating micro-frontends (April 12, 2019)
Jest: Our journey into performant unit tests (April 15, 2019)
Identifying micro-frontends in our applications (May 21, 2019)

De Voorhoede

Why our website is faster than yours (July 16, 2016)

DEV

App shell UX with service workers and streams (June 23, 2020)

Discord

Using React Native: One Year Later (June 7, 2016)
Lessons from migrating a large codebase to React 16 (October 5, 2017)
Why Discord is Sticking with React Native (July 26, 2018)
How Discord Maintains Performance While Adding Features (August 2, 2018)
How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users using WebRTC (September 10, 2018)
Investigating Discord’s React Memory Leak (August 8, 2019)
How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native (November 7, 2019)

Dropbox

Translating Dropbox (April 18, 2011)
Some love for JavaScript applications (August 31, 2012)
Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript (September 13, 2012)
Content Security Policy at Dropbox (September 2015): On Reporting and Filtering, Unsafe-inline and nonce deployment, The Unexpected Eval, Third Party Integrations and Privilege Separation
Enabling HTTP/2 for Dropbox web services: experiences and observations (May 11, 2016)
Annotations on Document Previews (November 30, 2016)
Preventing cross-site attacks using same-site cookies (March 16, 2017)
Deploying Brotli for static content (April 6, 2017)
Dropbox Paper: Emojis and Exformation (November 15, 2017)
Improving Document Preview Performance (December 1, 2017)
Migrating from Underscore to Lodash (September 5, 2018)
Redux with Code-Splitting and Type Checking (July 16, 2019)
Design Tooling at Scale (October 12, 2019)
The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017 (May 13, 2020)
JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign Editor (September 30, 2020)

eBay

Data URI Sprites (July 12, 2011)
The New eBay Motors Homepage is 2X Faster (October 14, 2011)
Five JavaScript Tips for a Sleek User Experience (April 16, 2012)
Page Loading and Rendering Optimizations (June 22, 2012)
Bandwidth-based Experience (October 10, 2012)
Early Detection of Frontend Single Points of Failure (January 22, 2013)
Front-end Renaissance at eBay (January 13, 2014)
Yet Another Responsive vs. Adaptive Story (March 5, 2014)
Don't Build Pages, Build Modules (October 2, 2014)
Async Fragments: Rediscovering Progressive HTML Rendering with Marko (December 8, 2014)
The Power of Perceived Performance (January 5, 2015)
Mobile First - A Retrospective (May 13, 2015)
How Our CSS Framework Helps Enforce Accessibility (November 4, 2015)
Packaging for Performance (January 4, 2016)
The Path to JavaScript Next (March 15, 2016)
Browse eBay with Style and Speed (June 30, 2016)
Experience the Lightning Bolt (September 21, 2016)
Effective Front-End Code Review (March 2, 2017)
Building a UI Component in 2017 and Beyond (May 3, 2017)
eBay’s Font Loading Strategy (September 21, 2017)
The Future of Marko (October 26, 2017)
Beyond HTTPS (December 13, 2017)
Integration Testing with React and Enzyme (June 26, 2018)
WebAssembly at eBay: A Real-World Use Case (May 22, 2019)
Autofill on Browsers: A Deep Dive (December 3, 2019)
Speed By A Thousand Cuts (January 23, 2020)
Front End Debugging — Tips on Resolving Issues Quickly so You Can Move on to Better Things (April 7, 2020)
Auto Effect Pattern with Redux and React Hooks (April 15, 2020)

Electronic Arts

Building UI at Enterprise Scale with Web Components (August 22, 2017)

Ele.me

Upgrading Ele.me to Progressive Web App (May 6, 2017)

Etsy

Localizing Logically for a Global Marketplace (October 21, 2011)
Multilingual User Generated Content and SEO (December 2, 2011)
Measuring Front-end Performance With Real Users (November 29, 2012)
Responsive emails that really work (March 13, 2014)
Transitioning to SCSS at Scale (February 2, 2015)
Rebuilding the Foundation of Etsy’s Seller Tools (February 5, 2015)
How Etsy Formats Currency (April 19, 2016)
SEO Title Tag Optimization at Etsy: Experimental Design and Causal Inference (October 25, 2016)
Optimizing Meta Descriptions, H1s and Title Tags: Lessons from Multivariate SEO Testing at Etsy (January 25, 2017)
Reducing Image File Size at Etsy (May 30, 2017)
How Etsy Localizes Addresses (September 26, 2018)
Developing in a Monorepo While Still Using Webpack (April 6, 2020)
The journey to fast production asset builds with Webpack (February 3, 2020)

Evil Martians

Is React Native podium-ready? (May 14, 2018)

ezCater

The case against React snapshot testing (June 27, 2019)

Facebook

Building the F8 App with React Native
BigPipe: Pipelining web pages for high performance (June 4, 2010)
Facebook has 30,000 react components. How do you manage large project directories with many components? (December 31, 2013)
The technology behind preview photos (August 6, 2015)
Improving CSS quality at Facebook and beyond (June 13, 2016)
This browser tweak saved 60% of requests to Facebook (January 26, 2017)
Building High-Quality JavaScript Tools (June 2, 2017)
React 16: A look inside an API-compatible rewrite of our frontend UI library (September 26, 2017)
Design Systems & Tools at Facebook (November 15, 2017)
Behind the Scenes: Improving the React Repository Infrastructure (December 15, 2017)
Faster input events with Facebook’s first browser API contribution (April 22, 2019)
Building the New facebook.com with React, GraphQL and Relay (April 30, 2019)
Rebuilding our tech stack for the new Facebook.com (May 8, 2020)
Making Facebook.com accessible to as many people as possible (July 30, 2020)

fastq.bio

How We Used WebAssembly To Speed Up Our Web App By 20X (April 5, 2019)

Figma

Building a professional design tool on the web (December 7, 2015)
Debugging Data Corruption with Emscripten (November 7, 2016)
WebAssembly cut Figma’s load time by 3x (June 8, 2017)
Introducing BrowserView for Electron (June 29, 2017)
Introducing: Figma to React (April 26, 2018)
Figma, faster 🏎 (August 13, 2018)
How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night (August 22, 2019)
React at 60fps: improving scrolling comments in Figma (August 19, 2020)

Financial Times

Building The New Financial Times Web App (May 23, 2013)
Free-market software development (August 21, 2015)
SVG icons are easy but the fallbacks aren't (December 1, 2015)
A faster FT.com (April 4, 2016)
YES, your site too can (and should) be accessible (May 23, 2017)
Improving the cache performance of The Polyfill Service (June 9, 2017)
Can't You Just Make It More like Bootstrap? (July 22, 2017)
Speeding up without slowing down (November 7, 2017)
What happens when you visit ft.com? (November 24, 2017)
Tips for in-house teams in a free market software culture (January 30, 2018)
An outbreak of Accessibility anti-patterns (May 18, 2018)
This one line of Javascript made FT.com 10 times slower (July 16, 2018)
Improving the cache performance of The Polyfill Service even more (January 21, 2019)
Designing a sustainable front-end toolset for FT.com (April 27, 2020)
Animating list reordering with React Hooks (August 26, 2020)

Flickr

Lessons Learned from the Flickr Touch Lightbox (July 20, 2011)
Creating an interface for geofences (September 6, 2011)
Raising the bar on web uploads (April 25, 2012)
Building an HTML5 Photo Editor (April 18, 2012)
Building The Flickr Web Uploadr: The Grid (May 11, 2012)
Parsing Exif client-side using JavaScript (June 1, 2012)
Adventures in Jank Busting: Parallax, performance, and the new Flickr Home Page (June 4, 2013)
Building Flickr’s new Hybrid Signed-Out Homepage (April 23, 2014)
Perceptual Image Compression at Flickr (September 25, 2015)
Introducing yakbak: Record and playback HTTP interactions in NodeJS (April 25, 2016)

Flipboard

Layout in Flipboard for Web and Windows (March 24, 2014)
60 FPS on the mobile web (February 10, 2015)

Flipkart

Building Flipkart Lite: A Progressive Web App (November 11, 2015)

Flocktory

Third party libraries (May 22, 2017)

Futurice

How Elm made our work better (November 1, 2016)

Garbarino

Building a PWA in Argentina (July 24, 2017)

GitHub

GitHub's CSS (July 23, 2014)
How GitHub is using Web Components in production (September 30, 2014)
Browser Monitoring for GitHub.com (May 19, 2015)
GitHub's CSP journey (April 12, 2016)
GitHub's post-CSP journey (January 19, 2017)
Shipping system fonts to GitHub.com (February 7, 2018)
Design Systems at GitHub (July 6, 2018)
Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend (September 6, 2018)
From 48k lines of code to 10—the story of GitHub’s JavaScript SDK (April 9, 2020)

GitLab

Why We Chose Vue.js (December 1, 2016)
Our big Frontend plan revealed (February 6, 2017): long term plan to make GitLab as fast and performant as possible with Vue and webpack
How we do Vue: one year later (November 9, 2017)
How GitLab switched to Headless Chrome for testing (December 19, 2017)
Our journey in switching to native Unicode emoji (May 30, 2018)
How we iterated and improved our frontend team culture (June 26, 2018)
Why we chose ECharts for data visualizations (September 30, 2019)
How GitLab Pages made our Sketch design handoffs easier and faster (November 7, 2019)
How we created a dark UI for GitLab's Web IDE (May 20, 2020)

Goibibo

How Goibibo's PWA improved conversions by 60% (September 29, 2020)

Google

Designing very large (JavaScript) applications (April 15, 2018)
Building the Google Photos Web UI (July 10, 2018)
TypeScript at Google (September 1, 2018)
The Chrome Dev Summit site: case study (March 12,2019)
The new AdWords UI uses Dart — we asked why (March 31, 2016)
A Recipe for Designing Animations — Without Sacrificing Performance (June 4, 2019)
Bringing service workers to Google Search (June 20, 2019)

GOV.UK

grammarly

Building Browser Extensions At Scale (October 6, 2017)

Gusto

Scaling Front-end Architecture (June 10, 2016)
Evolving JavaScript Part 1: Goodbye Backbone (July 12, 2016)
Evolving JavaScript Part 2: Hello React (July 12, 2016)
Evolving JavaScript Part 3: Building a React Application (July 12, 2016)
Taking off with Apollo (September 12, 2018)
How I fell out of love with HOCs (December 9, 2018)

HealthCare.gov

Building a design system for HealthCare.gov (August 29, 2017)

Heap

in der Apotheke

Farewell, Google Maps (July 18, 2018)

Infinite Red

Switching from Ava to Jest for TypeScript (November 6, 2017)
Using TypeScript to upgrade Ignite without losing my mind (March 20, 2019)
Yarn 1 vs Yarn 2 vs NPM (February 6, 2020)
Why Infinite Red uses MobX-State-Tree instead of Redux (June 16, 2020)

Insider Inc.

Instagram

React Native at Instagram (February 7, 2017)
Making Instagram.com faster: part 1 (August 1, 2019), part 2 (September 6, 2019), part 3 (October 11, 2019), part 4 (November 1, 2019)