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Tailwind CSS4: Why Those Inline Styles Are Actually More Scalable - A Senior CSS Developer's Guide
So you have heard about the Tailwind CSS and want to incorporate into your new project. But those inline styles look so polluted - they look similar t…
Escaping the Trap: Fixing Stale Closures in React Hooks ⚡
The Silent Interval Bug When building dynamic dashboards at Smart Tech Devs, you frequently need to implement background timers. Whether it's an auto-…
From Signals to Ownership: Why I Built a Dataflow Kernel
When I first started building signal-kernel , I thought I was simply writing a signal library—a fine-grained reactive system not tied to any specific …
Stop Rewriting UI Components for Every Project
Ever started a new project and found yourself rebuilding the same modal, dropdown, toast notification, tabs, and switches for the 20th time? I got tir…
react-slotx
react-slotx — Step-by-Step Tutorial This guide will walk you through using react-slotx from scratch. No prior knowledge of slots or portals is require…
A Scatter-Plot Explorer for World Statistics — Log Scales and Hand-Rolled Pearson Correlation
"Do countries with higher GDP per capita also have longer life expectancy?" I built a tool that lets you explore questions like that across 48 countri…
CSS Animations & Transitions: A Visual Guide (2026)
CSS Animations & Transitions: A Visual Guide (2026) CSS animations and transitions are the secret sauce that makes interfaces feel alive. No JavaS…
How ESLint Actually Works: The Quality Gate Behind Modern JavaScript
A few days ago, I shared an article: You Don't Need Another Agent. You Need a Linter. Then I did what I do with anything I write: shared it around — a…
CSS box-shadow: The Complete Guide to Multi-Layer Shadows
The box-shadow property is one of the most underused tools in CSS. Most developers use it for a single subtle drop shadow and stop there — but the ful…
Stop Declaring Tools Dead — lucide-react is Still Fine
Every few months, a post goes viral: "Please stop using [perfectly good tool]." This time it's lucide-react. And honestly? The take is lazy What's the…
Sync State Across Browser Tabs: Master BroadcastChannel in React ⚡
The Cross-Tab Desync Problem In modern SaaS web environments at Smart Tech Devs, enterprise power-users frequently operate with multiple browser tabs …
Frontend Testing in 2026: The Problems That Actually Break Your UI
Frontend testing has become weirdly broad. A few years ago, a lot of teams treated it as "write some Cypress tests" or "run Selenium in CI." That was …
Micro-Frontends vs. Monoliths in 2026: A Real-World Performance Teardown
The architectural pendulum of frontend engineering has spent the last decade swinging violently. We watched the industry consolidate around massive mo…
Styling and Color
Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and write a series of articles documenting the steps …
BurnLink: An Open-Source End-to-End Encrypted File Sharing Platform
Executive Summary I built BurnLink, an open-source file sharing service that prioritizes privacy through client-side encryption and zero-knowledge arc…
The Day I Broke Production Because of an Icon
I'm a big fan of aviation, and one lesson from aviation safety has always stuck with me: accidents rarely happen because of a single mistake. Instead,…
Navigating With Tabs
Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and write a series of articles documenting the steps …
Building a Fast Utility Website: What I Learned Creating 20+ Frontend Tools
Most utility websites today feel overloaded. Too many ads. Too many popups. Slow loading. Confusing layouts. So I started building a small side projec…
60fps Real-Time Graphics: OffscreenCanvas in Next.js ⚡
The Interactive Dashboard Bottleneck Modern enterprise platforms at Smart Tech Devs demand high-density data visualizations. We build tracking spaces …
CSS: Decoupling Behaviors
A press effect, shadow on rest, lifted on hover, depressed on active, is not central to buttons. It can be used on cards, image gallery photos, and ot…
A crude workaround for fixing stale static asset caching
A while back, I used Nginx reverse proxy caching for static files, and found that after deployment, clients were still pulling old files. Later, I use…
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Cut Network Latency: Optimize Next.js with Brotli ⚡
The Overlooked Bandwidth Tax When optimization is discussed in modern frontend development, developers frequently focus on component code-splitting or…
What I Learned After Building a Signal System from Scratch
Recap At this point, this series on Signals and fine-grained reactivity is temporarily coming to an end. This article will not introduce new technical…
I wrote this while refactoring my invoice app and trying to sort out where frontend “business logic” should actually live. Curious how others draw the line between components, hooks, use cases, and domain helpers in real React apps.
Clean Architecture on the Frontend: Beyond Smart and Dumb Components djblackett djblackett djblackett Follow Jun 7 Clean Architecture on the Frontend:…
Clean Architecture on the Frontend: Beyond Smart and Dumb Components
For a long time, frontend architecture meant one thing to me: split components into smart and dumb. Smart components fetch data, hold state, call muta…
JavaScript Proxy: One more way to use it I wish I’d known 3 years ago
In our everyday work, we do a lot of data shuffling. We work with heavily loaded data grids. We have built our own RevoGrid for this matter hence mark…
Lottie Animations in Gatsby.js: A Complete Guide
Gatsby's static site generation requires specific patterns for Lottie — animations need to be excluded from SSR, JSON imports need proper webpack co…
Why we still hand-code marketing sites in 2026 (GSAP, no page builder)
Page builders won. Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, and Framer cover most small business needs in an afternoon. So why would anyone still hand-code a market…