People who aggressively hate on Tailwind have never had to untangle a massive, legacy codebase where 15 different developers just appended `!important` to a global stylesheet for three years. Yes, the markup looks like a dumped bowl of alphabet soup. No, I don't care, because I actually know my layo...

**Can we normalize just building a standard React SPA with Vite again without feeling guilty that we aren't using Next.js?** The App Router and React Server Components are incredibly powerful, but the amount of gaslighting in the frontend ecosystem right now is insane. Not every internal das...

Hey everyone, after 18 months of development, MikroORM v7 is finally stable — and this one has a subtitle: **Unchained**. We broke free from knex, dropped all core dependencies to zero, shipped native ESM, and removed the hard coupling to Node.js. This is by far the biggest release we've done. **Ar...

Most terminal progress bars look like this: downloading... 60% So I built one that looks like this: Uploading \[████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░\] 60% Uploading \[===============>--------------\] 60% Uploading \[••••••••••••••••••············\] 60% Uploading \[★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆\] 60...

React code is full of hooks noise for state, references, memoization and effects and makes it hard to quickly scan a file and understand the main concepts because they are dominated by the lifecycle concerns. Something I started doing recently, after I [discovered this article](https://dev.to/decks...

I’m curious how people usually apply database migrations to a production database when working with microservices. In my case each service has its own migrations generated with cli tool. When deploying through github actions I’m thinking about storing the production database URL in gitHub secrets an...

Hey everyone! Wanted to share a performance optimization that made a huge difference in our paint-by-numbers canvas app built with React + PixiJS. **The problem:** We needed to show number labels (1-24) on thousands of pixels to guide users which color to paint. The naive approach was HTML divs...

To the seniors out there how often are you still looking up syntax or hooks? I'm curious if this feeling of not knowing enough is just a phase or if the job is actually a lot of high-level searching even at your level? I’ve been learning JS and React for two months now, and I feel like a glorified ...