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Localization

Migration of Sprout Social's localization system

Localizing a dynamic application like Sprout Social into multiple languages is a complex undertaking. For years, Sprout engineering team got by with a scrappy homemade localization solution. While this solution served us for years, we were running into limitations more and more as the team and the application grew. In this post, I will outline some of those limitations and the steps we took to redesign our localization system to address those limitations.

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Design Systems

Design System Residency Write-up

I was able to help the Design Systems team at Sprout Social propose a residency program, and I participated as the first resident. A residency program is a way for developers and designers to join the Design Systems team for a period of time before returning to their normal product teams. I was able to complete several valuable projects as well as learn more about our systems, collaborating as a product organization, and how residency programs can work within an organization.

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Linting

How to painlessly turn on ESLint rules

Linting is a powerful way to catch bad code and enforce best practices. That said, turning a rule on for an existing project can be difficult. esplint is a tool that makes it easier to introduce new ESLint rules to large, legacy codebases by tracking, enforcing, and updating file and rule scoped warning counts.

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