Alex Kaminsky: The First Engineer's Dilemma - JSConf Iceland 2016

So you've been hired as the first web engineer to work on a major product and have been given complete freedom as to the frameworks, libraries, and tools you wish to use. How do you begin to choose? With the bevy of options available to you, how to you choose a stack that will stand the test of time? I walk through this dilemma through the lens of my own experience building ReutersTV.