Around 5-8 years ago when working on Angular and TypeScript rules in Bazel, I got very interested in exploring the core ideas of incremental computation, which seemed like the right way to abstractly (but still precisely) describe the similarities between build systems and UI reactivity. As an aside, incremental dataflow is a third view into the same concept, but I am least familiar with it. I wrote the following series of posts to try to pull all the different threads together. It was useful...
