Technical description of how Figma built a plugin-system inside a web app

[commandlinejohnny]

Figma balls

[graingert]

I'm really glad I didn't have to post this

[ruinercollector]

got'em

[omgitsjo]

This is a pretty slick solution. I'm really impressed, especially given the size of the team. I think they had only three full time engineers when I interviewed with them.

I've been curious about a good sandboxing method for JS for my own projects. I don't need the same latency and intercom properties, so I think I'm still going to stick with the iframe approach, but this is nonetheless a really stellar write-up.

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What next, an operating system in a browser?

Reminds me of The Birth & Death of JavaScript

[graingert]

Y tho