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title: Why the name?
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pubdate: 2018-07-20
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In war, the soldiers who build bridges, repair roads, clear minefields and conduct demolitions — all under combat conditions — are known as *sappers*.
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For web developers, the stakes are generally lower than those for combat engineers. But we face our own hostile environment: underpowered devices, poor network connections, and the complexity inherent in front-end engineering. Sapper, which is short for <strong>S</strong>velte <strong>app</strong> mak<strong>er</strong>, is your courageous and dutiful ally. |