Is it okay to have component wise state when using Redux as a store management? Have you guys come across any cases when there is a need for this?

Hi Dan, you often say that the Redux is inspired by a few core ideas in Elm; could you give a brief on what parts of Redux were inspired by Elm?

What tech stack do you work with? Isomorphic apps or Universal apps - which term do you prefer and why?

Thanks!!

Cool. I'll take a look. Thanks!

You may find the following discussion interesting : https://hashnode.com/post/which-one-is-the-templating-engine-of-your-choice-and-why-ciibz8fi701bcj3xt5blqbqvh It's a poll and looks like Jade is winning. I once tried EJS, but for large scale projects I won't recommend it. Jade is good, but you need to wrap your head around the indentation thingy.

I want to start with just Spring MVC, but may add more enterprise components in future..

Have you taken a look at smooth-scroll . It's a plain JS implementation. You may also want to take a look at the code on GitHub.

In terms of engineering what do you look for in software developers who want to join you?

What was the most challenging thing for Algolia while scaling up?