Engineering
Shipping production code from a visual canvas
How Plus UI turns what you compose into typed, tree-shaken React and Web Components — ready to deploy, not to throw away.
Hilal Tasdan
How we keep pages under a second
A performance budget isn't a cleanup task. It's a constraint you design against from the first commit.
Speed is easy to lose one kilobyte at a time. A budget makes each addition visible: a font weight, a script, an image — each one has to earn its place against a number.
Measure at the gate
Check the budget on every change, not before launch. A regression caught at the commit is a one-line fix; caught at launch, it’s a rewrite.
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