Episode 125: Eric Gardner

🕑 1 hour 8 minutes

Eric Gardner is a senior software engineer on the Design Systems team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been heavily involved in the introduction of the Vue.js library into MediaWiki, and the creation of the related Codex library.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Eric Gardner WMF page
  • Eric's homepage
• WMF Design Systems Team
• Jekyll Wikipedia article
• 11ty (Eleventy) JS library
• RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki (2019)
• "Second-guessing the modern web" (Tom MacWright blog post)
• "Islands Architecture" (Jason Miller blog post)
• Astro web framework
• Wikimedia Commons Media Search 
• Codex JS library
  • Codex documentation