JLJack Liincrossui.hashnode.dev·1h ago · 7 min readNo npm install. No dev server. A faster way to iterate on React UIs?You've done this a hundred times. Clone a template. npm install. Wait. Maybe a peer dependency fight. Fix the node version. Install again. Start the dev server. Wait for the first compile. Now you can00
JLJack Liincrossui.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 11 min readWhat breaks if I delete this file? React tooling can't answer that.~10 min read · Engineering You want to delete a file. A quick search shows three direct imports. That's easy enough to see. The harder question is what those three files are used by. One may be a layo00
JLJack Liincrossui.hashnode.dev·Aug 9 · 9 min readTwo-way is not the same as symmetricEvery visual editor for React says it's "two-way." Click something, see the code. Change the code, see the canvas update. Sounds symmetric. It's usually not. Look closer at most tools and you'll find 00
JLJack Liincrossui.hashnode.dev·Aug 1 · 12 min readWhat if students could edit a real React app before they can even write one?Most React courses teach in the same order. Syntax first. Then hooks. Then a small app. Then, somewhere near the end — if there's time — how a real project is actually organized. I understand why. You00
JLJack Liincrossui.hashnode.dev·Jul 13 · 6 min readEditing React components that never rendered~7 min read · Engineering There are only two ways a tool can learn the shape of your React code. Which one you pick decides the single most important thing about the tool: whether it's available in th00
