- Design APIs by starting with the desired user experience and working backward to the abstraction, prioritizing UI over API.
- Accept internal complexity in React to simplify product development, absorbing complexity to prevent it from bleeding into product code.
- Allow hacks through escape hatches, then observe and eventually provide idiomatic solutions for those that improve user experience.
- Enable local reasoning so developers can make changes safely with only local code knowledge, avoiding global dependencies.
- Favor a single gradual path from simple to complex features over a forked approach that requires rewrites.
- Contain damage from performance or quality issues, ensuring developers and users only pay for features they use or interact with.
- Trust theory to avoid local maxima, investing in approaches that are fundamentally sound even if they take years to realize.