Barrel files are convenient, but they often come with trade-offs including: Performance and memory: they artificially inflate the module graph and slow down startup times, HMR, and CI pipelines.

It began with a few dozen boxes left behind after the death of her father. DOROTHY ROBERTS: I confronted them because they'd been in my basement for a decade already, and so I wanted to see what was ...

NPR's Michel Martin asks professor Dorothy Roberts about her new memoir, "The Mixed Marriage Project," about her father's quest to challenge white supremacy by studying interracial couples in Chicago.