Institute Letter

Fall 2020 production site · Spring 2021 production site

Twice a year, my office at the Institute for Advanced Study publishes a newsletter featuring original articles by visiting scholars.

Newsletter articles share a common prototype, but the diversity of style, subject matter, and authorship calls for flexibility in presentation.

Anticipating this need for flexibility, for the digital edition of the Fall 2020 newsletter—written in Svelte—I focused development on a robust set of beautiful, composable, compound components.

When it came time to lay out the content of each piece, this compositional approach facilitated efficient article-building whilst leaving the door open to the one-offs that make each article unique.

This approach paid off even further when I started work on the Spring 2021 edition of the same publication. With a library of reusable compound components already in place, I was free to focus development on a few smaller extensions written specifically for that issue’s content.