9 Times the Web Platform Was Influenced by Libraries | Jad JoubranThe web platform didn't invent most of its best APIs. It caught up to them. Libraries did the R&D work in production. They got tested by thousands of developers across thousands of codebases, which is the kind of feedback you can't simulate. They got bug reports. They iterated. And, the patterns that survived eventually became part of the platform itself. If you've been writing JavaScript for a wh
