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WE REPLACED OUR REACT FRONTEND WITH GO AND WEBASSEMBLY

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

A company called Dagger replaced its React-based cloud UI with a Go and WebAssembly (WASM) implementation to improve performance. The previous dual codebases (Go for the terminal UI and React for the web UI) made it hard to maintain and move fast. Migrating to Go and WASM allowed code reuse between the two interfaces.