Preface
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Who This Book Is For
This book is not a technical manual, though there are plenty of code samples along the way. This book is not purely theoretical, though it spends as much time dealing with why we do things as it does on how we do things. Therefore, the audience for this book is neither the developer who is simply looking for technical answers, nor the project manager who only wants the 5,000-foot view.
The audience for this book is the developer who wants to better understand the bigger picture of frontend development. I’m writing this to energize and inspire developers to take up the mantle of the frontend architect and fight to make the frontend a first-class citizen in their next project.
It is also written for technically ...
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