To know what Flipkart Lite is, read this article by Aditya Punjani on the story behind building the Progressive Web App,

Also, this article is cross posted here at the Official Flipkart Tech Blog — http://tech-blog.flipkart.net/2016/03/flipkartlite-the-how/

Well, where do I even start? The following is the list of most of the tech behind Flipkart Lite in NO particular order. Many thanks to all the authors and contributors of these tools, libraries, frameworks, specification etc…

Front-end:

• React
• react-router
• phrontend (+ flux)
• sw-toolbox

Tools — Build and Serve:

• NodeJS + ExpressJS
• Babel
• Webpack
• css-loader (for css-modules) —
• Postcss (+ autoprefixer, cssnext)

Web platform:

• Service Workers
• fetch API
• Push API
• GPU…

This post is just for joke and means no harm to any of the tools and libraries mentioned below. I’m using them all the time, it’s amazing and I’d always recommend them.

This is heavily inspired from CircleCI’s blog post ‘It’s the Future’ and expresses the same in another perspective.

Hey, I'd like to learn to write rich web applications. I hear you've got a bit of experience in that area.

: Yeah. I'm a front-end guy, using a couple of tools and techniques to build web applications.

Cool. I'm building a simple web app at the moment — a…

In JavaScript, most of the code that we write falls under asynchronous programming. Whenever we pass an argument as a function and expect this function to run sometime in future, we’re dealing with something asynchronous. And it isn’t always nice to have callbacks as the preliminary entities for async. We frequently end up with this

a('a', function() {
  b('b', function() {
    c('c', function() {
      d('d', function() {
        console.log('WTF!!!');
      });
    });
  });
});

and it was never nice to add one more function to represent your idea into code via callbacks. Promises are a big step towards solving this issue. The…

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