> htmx ~ An interview with Makinde Adeagbo, Creator of Primer

Makinde Adeagbo shares insights about his work on Primer, a hypermedia-oriented JavaScript library used at Facebook in the 2000s. He discusses his personal background, how Primer was developed to improve Facebook's page load times, the absence of competition between Primer and React, reasons why Primer eventually became obsolete, and the key technical and people-management lessons he learned from the experience.