@Jeremy Rose
Chrome Tracing for Fun and Profit
You might have used Chrome’s Developer Tools to profile your JavaScript to improve performance or find…
#javascript
@Machisté N. Quintana
Interop’s Labyrinth: Sharing Code Between Web & Electron Apps
While it’s no secret that the cross-platform Slack Desktop app is built on Electron, it might be slightly less…
@Rowan Oulton
Keep webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance
webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its…
@Charlie Hess
Growing Pains: Migrating Slack’s Desktop App to BrowserView
Recently Slack on the desktop has been going through an awkward adolescence. Instead of flailing limbs and pitch…
@Chris Montrois
Rebuilding Slack’s Emoji Picker in React
Slack is transitioning its web client to React. When Slack was first built, our frontend consisted of…
@Felix Rieseberg
TypeScript at Slack
When Brendan Eich created the very first version of JavaScript for Netscape Navigator 2.0 in merely ten days,…
@Slack Engineering
Reducing Slack’s memory footprint
Our desktop app is the most widely used and most capable Slack client that we offer. For many of our customers,…
@Scott Schiller
Making Slack Faster By Being Lazy: Part 2
This is a continuation of Part 1, covering some highlights and lessons learned from a refactor of the way the…
