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Sort of lame compared to Shopify's Black Friday dashboard. Stripe sort of feels like they lost some magic.


Definitely different levels!

https://bfcm.shopify.com/

Does anyone know what frameworks Shopify used to put that together? Viewing the source I see refs to react, but I find it hard to believe that it is only react.


Whoa. This feels like something someone would have made in Flash arbitrarily in their spare time some 20 years ago, in a really good way. Tons of loving details.


React three fiber. A way to use Three but with React. It is quite neat and powerful.


It hurts seeing all that Australian traffic cross the Pacific. As an Aussie the internet feels so much better in north America


They blogged about how they wrote the 2023 version which seems to have a lot in common.

https://shopify.engineering/how-we-built-shopifys-bfcm-2023-...


There's at least one error log that references Three.js.


Lame) This is a physical machine, presumably in their office! Shopify's is cool and all, and they projected it onto the Vegas Sphere at one point, which was also all sorts of cool. Not sure why it's a contest, or a sign of losing some sort of magic. (they're both corporations, not a kids variety act)





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