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Mar 1, 2022 · Frontend Development

How Alibaba Built a Web‑Based Short Video Editor: Front‑End Insights

This article details Alibaba’s front‑end engineer’s approach to building a web‑based short video editor, covering the motivation, design principles, three‑layer architecture, script protocol, immutable data handling, audio‑video processing with WebCodecs and FFmpeg, rendering pipeline, and challenges of browser implementation.