Inkling Habitat: How a 100,000 Line JavaScript Application Focused on Digital Publishing is Built

Last week I introduced you to one of the original animating ideas behind Inkling Habitat, treating books as software to transform the eBook production process. Today I'd like to take you behind the scenes and show you the technologies and processes we used to build Inkling Habitat itself. How did we build this software?

How is Inkling Habitat Built?

First, Inkling Habitat is a client side application that runs inside your web browser, built with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The client-side portion is roughly 100,000 lines of JavaScript, which is a big application.

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