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Episode 035 - Top shelf style guides

In this episode, we’re joined by Jyri Tuulos and Josh London to help discuss reusable components and building style guides. Jyri is a Staff Engineer at AdRoll and Josh is a Senior Designer at Netflix. We discuss best practices companies are leveraging style guides and reusable components. We also share the positives and negatives to having a style guide.

Items mentioned in the episode:
AdRoll, Netflix, JavaScript, CSS, CSS Preprocessor, PHP, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Learning, Jennison Asuncion, Accessibility episode, Atlassian, Bitbucket, Evernote, Storybook, npm, Slack, Laurie Voss, React, Angular, React plus X: Best Practices for Reusable UI Components, Forward JS, React Style Guide Generator, Pattern Lab, Brad Frost, Dave Olson, Atomic Design, JQuery, JQuery Widgets, Sketch, SASS, Bootstrap, React Bootstrap, Starbucks Style Guide, Styleguides.io

Guests:
Jyri Tuulos - @jtuulos
Josh London - @joshualondon

Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine
Stacy London - @stacylondoner

Picks:
Jyri Tuulos - AdRoll style guide
Jyri Tuulos - Reasonably Sound
Josh London - InspiRock
Josh London - React Sketch App
Ryan Burgess - XLR8 Connect Diaper Backpack
Ryan Burgess - Bosch
Augustus Yuan - Quick Draw! Google Dataset
Augustus Yuan - Style Guides
Augustus Yuan - Google I/O videos
Jem Young - Why did the chicken cross the road
Jem Young - ES6 Proxies and Reflection
Derrick Showers - Instacart
Derrick Showers - Blue Apron
Mars Jullian - Single Div
Mars Jullian - Detour
Stacy London - AtlasKit
Stacy London - Actually Smiling by Geotic

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