Web instructure at Dropbox

[2015-03-06 Fri 19:30] speaker: Li Haoyi, Dropbox event: Friday Hacks ** web infrastructure tooling around the code base to

• catch bugs
• enforce conventions

code base made up of

• python
• coffeescript ** web client admin features sharing more engineers working on the web client ** selenium testing the site slow, flakey many bugs are dumb mistakes, not subtle errors ** static analysis find invalid identifiers ** introduce better abstractions jquery munging into react.js ** more modular code declare depedencies with require.js ** tools to query the structure of code find the transitive dependencies enforce coding conventions ** applications best way to package the code to optimize browser load time