How to create an automated web browser: 🔹 Study Electron.js 🔹 Study React.js 🔹 Make the two play nice together 🔹 Abandon react-redux and write your own 🔹 Create an SDK, and make it self-documenting 🔹 Make sure all events are native ( isTrusted flag is true) 🔹 Create an IDE from scratch 🔹 Make the SDK and IDE play nice together 🔹 Create a modules system 🔹 Create a public API for the modules 🔹 Create an I/O system 🔹 Create a command-line interface And even though you obsessed over UX all this time, the app still feels uninviting, for lack of a better word. 👉 Then one weekend, add the ability to record automations with point-and-click. 🪄 Boom! Magic. This is some version of the Pareto Principle in action. Even though a minority of actions produce the majority of the consequences, you really can't skip the work. I could not have added the recording feature without first building everything else. And moving forward, this pattern will repeat.…