The Midnight Hack That Changed Everything
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A developer shares the story of a late-night coding session in April 2020 that led to a breakthrough: implementing hot module replacement over native ESM. The prototype achieved dramatically faster update times (100 milliseconds vs 5 seconds), representing a 50x performance improvement for large projects. This midnight hack demonstrated the feasibility of what would become a significant advancement in developer tooling.
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