(The RealReal : 1/17-2/17)
When I joined, it was with the understanding that as the company was growing, we would need to be splitting out the codebase into a more service-oriented architecture.
In late Q1/17, seeing an opportuntiy to leverage React components to both DRY up and reuse functionality and in a bid to further decoupling frontend and backend, I tasked the remote Russian team with the introduction of React around signup functionality.
When the project was almost complete, an engineering executive required that we pull out React and implement the functionality in a more vanilla way, citing that “any changes that engineering [made] causing the business to potentially miss its numbers would be bad.”
Results
- Explored (but had to abandon) use of React at TRR.