Frontend Engineering

Here's the whole lesson up front, so you can leave after one paragraph if you want: If your text...

"Invalid hook call. Hooks can only be called inside of the body of a function component." You read...

Every engineering team has experienced this. The codebase starts clean. A few months...

How we over-engineered the web, and why shipping plain HTML is the ultimate developer flex. Let’s be...

Choosing a frontend framework is one of the most common conversations in web development. React or...

The mistakes were not about forgetting hooks. They were about putting responsibility in the wrong place. Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

Is the default framework always the right one for your project? Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

The invisible button incident I got a Slack message at 10 AM last Wednesday. A junior...

"Should I use useState, useReducer, or a store like Zustand?" usually gets answered with vibes. So I...

When I started this project, I had one simple goal: Create a collection of free online tools that...

Merging PDFs on the server is straightforward. Upload the files, run a command-line tool, send the...

Hoi hoi! I'm @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer who was cheering for the World Cup during tropical...

From React Compiler to streaming SSR, web performance shifted from a manual chore to a build-step standard. Here is why your 2024 optimization checklist is dead

Part 0: The Deep Breath — Why It's Not Just a Figure of Speech 👦 Nephew: Uncle! Production...

For years, my reflex for anything dynamic on a page was to reach for JavaScript. Toggle a class based on what an element contains. Measure… Continue reading on

Learn the real reasons behind slow React applications and how to fix them using React DevTools, code splitting, memoization, and better… Continue reading on Med

When I first started learning JavaScript, event bubbling was one of the most confusing concepts for me. Continue reading on Medium »

Next.js vs Remix vs SvelteKit: Which Framework Should You Learn? React and Next.js...

Frontend teams should be able to add presence, live cursors, shared state, room events, and awareness without turning a product feature… Continue reading on Med

A structured tour of the things that actually make sites fast — the critical rendering path, bundle size, lazy loading, and the Core Web… Continue reading on Me

Frontend artık sadece UI çizilen bir katman değil. Gerçek zamanlı veri, client-side compute ve sürekli değişen state ile çalışan bir… Continue reading on Medium

Fetching data in a React component looks harmless at first. You render a component, call an API in...

Headline: Cache Components turn caching into a component-level concern you can read off the source...

The React ecosystem continues to move at a blistering pace, with new releases and improvements across frameworks, tools, and libraries… Continue reading on Medi

As real DOM enters the GPU rendering pipeline, the experience of frontend graphics programming is about to be rewritten  Continue reading on JavaScript in Plai

Every time I needed a chart on a dashboard, the playbook was the same: pull in Chart.js or Recharts,...

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You want to load an image only when it scrolls near the viewport. Or fire an analytics event the first time a card is actually seen. Or… Continue reading on Med

Handling automated dependency updates usually means manually untangling UI component breakages when a...

How does React turn HTML-like syntax into JavaScript? Take a deep dive into the JSX compiler pipeline, ASTs, Babel, and built-in XSS… Continue reading on Medium

I’d built production apps for years. One basic JavaScript question still froze me cold. Continue reading on Medium »

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Discover the best frontend workflow tools that save time, reduce bugs, and help you build faster, cleaner modern web apps. Continue reading on Medium »

Discover the best frontend workflow tools that save time, reduce bugs, and help you build faster, cleaner modern web apps. Continue reading on Medium »

Every Angular codebase has one. You know exactly which component I’m talking about. It’s the file people hesitate to open. The one that… Continue reading on UX

Angular calls a set of lifecycle hook methods on components and directives at specific moments —...

1. Component selector types: element, attribute, and class By default, Angular...

The most argued-about question in frontend auth has a real answer — it’s just not the one most blog posts give you. Continue reading on Medium »

Managing frontend application state layers inside distributed cloud environments requires careful planning. Specifically, when software… Continue reading on Med

At the recent JS Nation conference, Deno officially released its built-in desktop packaging capability, Deno Desktop, which immediately… Continue reading on Med

I kept coming across the term “Progressive Web App” in blog posts, conference talks, and documentation. At some point, I realized I knew… Continue reading on Me

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Stop blindly using useMemo and useCallback. Learn what actually makes React applications fast. Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »

You have a search box. The user types react hooks, and your component fires an API request on every single keystroke — eleven requests for… Continue reading on

Explore the most powerful CSS frameworks developers are using in 2026 to build fast, responsive, and modern web applications. Continue reading on Medium »

Explore the most powerful CSS frameworks developers are using in 2026 to build fast, responsive, and modern web applications. Continue reading on Medium »

Building a production-ready HTML5 video player taught me that autoplay isn’t a feature — it’s a permission earned from the browser. Continue reading on Medium »

Hey everyone, I’m Elliot, and today I want to talk about the last project I worked on as a Software Engineer. Continue reading on Medium »