Where to begin! Where to begin…
Lets start with a good measure of success, one that I think most engineers could agree on: a from-scratch rebuild of a complex, internal tools app. Success with rebuilds is often fleeting, as many can attest. There’s risk involved. Extending the challenge further, lets assign (most) of the task to a team of platform engineers who aren’t too familiar with modern front-end technology – and then say that we succeeded.
Is Artsy crazy? Or is Next.js (along with our team 🙂) just that good? Well, it’s a little of both. And it’s a little bittersweet, in a way. Here’s our tale.