Seven months ago I released an experimental module loader that enabled ES modules in Node. With over a million downloads, thousands of commits, and the…
On the Office Online team, we regularly hire experienced engineers that have never worked on large scale web applications. As a result, we have a large number of engineers with strong backgrounds in languages like C# and Java learning how to write code in TypeScript for the first time…
Twelve weeks ago, three of us — interns on the Web Platform team — set out to build a compiler from TypeScript to WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a size and load-time-efficient binary format suitable for compilation to the web, with the…
I’m in my eleventh week of twelve as a Developer Content Experience intern at Microsoft…
On the Office Online team, we’re constantly looking for ways to improve the boot times of our applications. One of the factors that directly impacts the time it takes for these applications to boot is the raw size of the JavaScript files…
When deploying a new version of Office Online, we look at several pieces of telemetry to help determine the overall health of an individual application. One of these signals is the rate at which our users are experiencing unhanded JavaScript exceptions. We attempt to…
In the previous post in this series, I discussed my approach to CSS for the 10k Apart site. Now it’s time to add the icing to our user experience cake with JavaScript.
