He just crawled through hell to fix the browser…
Apr 2, 2026•Channel
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Published2 months ago
Duration5:37
Video IDvd14EElCRvs
Languageen
CategoryScience & Technology
PrivacyPublic
Made for KidsNo
Video TypeRegular Video
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Views953.4K
Likes39.9K
Comments1.3K
Engagement Rate4.33%
Likes per 100 views4.18
Comments per 1K views1.40
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Cheng Lou, a former React Core team member and engineer at Midjourney says he "crawled through depths of hell" to bring us Pretext – a fast, accurate, and comprehensive text measurement library that could change UI design forever. Let's run it.
#coding #programming #typescript #javascript
🔖 Topics Covered
- Who is Cheng Lou?
- Intro to Pretext
- What makes dynamic text rendering so hard?
- Pretext demo
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