4h ago · 4 min read · If a child component throws during render, React can unmount the whole subtree beneath it. Related: React State Management Patterns—another area where the class-vs-hooks split shows up in practice. Without containment, one bad leaf can leave users st...
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5h ago · 5 min read · Most teams pick React state libraries from npm trends or conference hype. Also in this series: Why React Error Boundaries Are Class Components: one of the few React APIs that still requires a class. That works until re-renders spike, boilerplate spr...
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6h ago · 3 min read · The JavaScript Bloat Epidemic For years, the standard approach to building React applications involved sending massive bundles of JavaScript to the client's browser. The browser had to download, parse
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7h ago · 4 min read · Related: Why CSS Never Matches Figma which is another place where the browser's rendering pipeline creates unexpected gaps. At 60Hz, the browser has ~16.67ms per frame for all JavaScript execution, style calculation, layout, paint, and compositing — ...
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7h ago · 6 min read · Open any Figma file. Look at those perfectly smooth corners, the glass blur with real depth, the stroke that sits cleanly inside the element without touching the spacing. Now build it in CSS. It’s close. But something is always slightly off. The corn...
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17h ago · 11 min read · Related: The 16.6ms Frame Budget, the wall clock deadline that every stage in this pipeline must fit inside. Every rendered frame runs through a fixed pipeline: Parse → Style → Layout → Paint → Composite. Understanding which stage runs on which threa...
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1d ago · 6 min read · Most teams that decide to introduce design tokens face the same problem: the existing codebase has years of hardcoded values scattered across hundreds of files. Colors defined in component CSS. Spacing values repeated in utility classes. Font sizes s...
Join discussion1d ago · 6 min read · Building a consistent UI across a growing application is hard. The tooling around design systems has matured significantly over the past few years, and many of the best options are free or open source. If your team is starting to think about design t...
Join discussion2d ago · 2 min read · If you've reached this part of Rust, you're looking at the tools that power the libraries you've been using (like vec!, println!, or serde). These are the Power User tools. Think of Macros as Code that Writes Code. Imagine if you could write a Babel ...
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