CRAFTING A BETTER, FASTER CODE VIEW

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

The new GitHub Code View brings users many new features to improve the code reading and exploration experience. GitHub’s engineering team overcame a number of unique technical hurdles in order to deliver these features without compromising performance. The team had a few guiding principles on which they refused to compromise while building the new Code View, such as the importance of speed, intuitiveness, and ease of use. In this article, they dive through the challenges they faced and how they solved them in detail.