[ojame]

High touch in the sense of being driven by product development. We let everyone make technical choices, sometimes autonomously but sometimes as a pitch. A part of technical leadership in smaller organisations is mitigating a lot of that “new hire/shiny thing” risk.

We used react a lot externally to the main product as early as 2014, but didn’t introduce it into the main product until we were comfortable.

[taeric]

Apologies if it felt like I was questioning your choice. I meant my post as an addition.

Using things outside the critical path is definitely the right choice. Making things to throw away is also great.

I do get worried, sometimes, that it is also correct to let the new coders pick the styles and frameworks. Letting them choose is a huge boon to their productivity. And letting them advance on a bet like this can payoff really well. Just expect losses along the way.