I have very fond memories of joining Google and discovering the Closure library. It had everything and in an era before npm, JS modules, and ES6... it made writ

I have very fond memories of joining Google and discovering the Closure library. It had everything and in an era before npm, JS modules, and ES6... it made writing JS feel magical. Impossibly large projects felt possible, and complex systems felt maintainable. These days it feels a bit like boost is to modern C++. A monument to amazing engineering of the past, but something to keep in the archive.