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Oct 5 2021

Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components

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Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components
In this article, we’ll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.
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