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Re:Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaS... by mromanuk on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @09:53AM (#8527129)
Duplication and poor documentation made it difficult for developers to make changes to the admin. Once we started questioning Batman, we saw that the evidence strongly indicated it was time to move on to the next chapter.

I don't see a SPA vs Server side rendering debate in the article. Building your own framework was the problem, is not a core competence of Shopify to build JS frameworks. Maybe they could choose other route, like going with React or Angular there.

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Re:Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaS... by wvanbergen on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @11:40AM (#8527751)
We actually evaluated other options as well, including Angular, but found them not the best solution for our problem. We documented our experiments and evaluations at the time here: https://gist.github.com/kristianpd/f4c2e0aeb53d09f6def1
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