Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Cheng Lou, a former React Core team member and engineer at Midjourney says he "crawled through depths of hell" to bring us Pretext – a fast, accurate, and comprehensive text measurement library that could change UI design forever. Let's run it.

#coding #programming #typescript #javascript

🔖 Topics Covered
- Who is Cheng Lou?
- Intro to Pretext
- What makes dynamic text rendering so hard?
- Pretext demo

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