Rebuilding slack.com – Several People Are Coding

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This link appeared in WDRL 202 on 13.10.2017.

Mina Markham shares why and how Slack engineers re-built the website of Slack with CSS Grid. Interestingly, this change resulted in leaner, cleaner code with more predictable CSS specificity, and drastically improved performance.