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  • Part 1 - Principles
    • Introduction
    • Upgrading (the idea of) dependencies
    • Avoiding the Ratchet
    • More than (Just) a Developer
    • What Are We Choosing React For?
    • A Modest Stack
    • Overreact
    • It's About Much More than Writing JavaScript
    • Modest Business, Modest JS
    • Selling Your Modest Idea
    • What Leadership Does
    • Keeping Optimizations Modest
  • Part 2 - Concrete ways
    • Intro to Part 2
    • Building the Same UI Three Modest Ways
    • The JS Gradient
    • Getting to More Modest Javascript
    • Learn More
    • About the Author
    • Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following contributors for helping make this book:

For help revising the book: Sai Warang, Jim Cassidy, Bertrand Lefort, Jason Prini, Chris Millward and Casey Li.

To Jonathan Snook for the link to the crowdfunding of the development of the picture element.

To Jean-Claude Batista for the Overreact chapter title.

Counter-Arguments

Harry Bachrach offered some thorough rebuttals of aspects of Part 1 of the book. Previously, Harry also made me realize that one part was especially demeaning to those starting their careers, which I retracted.

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