Modern front-end development is a cornucopia of options and architectural strategies. A development team must survey the landscape and assemble a bespoke toolchain from the countless libraries, frameworks, plugins and design tools that are at their disposal. As the system expands, and scalability becomes an issue, the team might consider implementing a design system on the front end.
In her new talk, Jen Udan lays out a path forward for building an Atomic design system from the ground up with React, Typescript and Storybook. Jen explains how to architect a component library using a monorepo strategy and dependency issues that can arise and be mitigated.
Using a recent client project as a case study, Jen explores the scalability issues that led to architecting a design system monorepo, the tradeoffs when exporting multiple packages from a monorepo versus exporting a single package, and considerations for organizations scoping out and planning for design system implementation.
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If you're ready to get started on a new strategy for your front end, you can reference these resources shared during the talk:
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