For fifteen years, I built React applications the same way everyone else did: render everything on the client, fetch data with useEffect, and watch the bundle size grow with every new feature. Then React Server Components arrived, and I had to unlearn almost everything I thought I knew about frontend architecture. React Server Components Architecture:… Continue reading
Category: Modern Web Development
The Great Frontend Shift: How React Server Components Are Rewriting the Rules of Web Development
Something fundamental shifted in frontend development in 2024, and most developers are still catching up. React Server Components (RSC) represent the most significant architectural change to React since hooks, fundamentally rethinking where code executes and how data flows through modern web applications. After building production systems with RSC for the past year, I’ve come to… Continue reading
The Frontend Renaissance: Why 2025 Marks a Turning Point for Web Development
Something remarkable is happening in frontend development. After years of framework fatigue and build tool complexity, we’re witnessing a genuine renaissance—a convergence of mature tooling, refined patterns, and developer experience improvements that’s fundamentally changing how we build web applications. Having spent over two decades watching frontend evolution from table-based layouts to the current ecosystem, I… Continue reading
Node.js 9.x.x and npm 6.x.x – “npm audit” to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in dependencies
It has been a while I have been reading about the major changes that areintroduced in Node.js 9.x.x / NPM 6.x.x and myself faced by Node.js application going to a toss after I upgraded to Node.js 9.x.x, as I always keep Node.js up to date in my development environment. I use NVM(Node Virtual Manager) to… Continue reading
Setting up Local NPM repository to Speedup Dev/CI Builds
As a modern day JavaScript developer working with Node.js and NPM, it has been always any developer’s case to clean up local node modules sometimes when local build is broken. It is a tedious tasks to cleanup %appData%\npm-cache to do a fresh install of all the modules again. Depending on the number of modules your… Continue reading