React is (becoming) a Full-Stack Framework

React, with its addition of Server Components and Server Actions, is evolving into a full-stack framework. Once the most popular frontend framework, it has now successfully bridged the gap between frontend and backend to reign over both sides of the chasm.

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School Bus Tracker System Architecture

Joud W. Awad In this blog post, we will explore how to build a tracking system for vehicles, specifically focusing on school buses. The design of this system will enable the monitoring of school buses across a broad spectrum of educational institutions.

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Implementing React From Scratch

My goal here is to walk through my process of building react from the groundup, hopefully giving you an intuition to why things behave the way they do in react. There are many cases where react leaks its abstraction in the interface, so learning how the internals could by implemented is extremely useful to understand the motivation behind those interface designs.

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How Amazon and Google view CI/CD in an entirely different way

I spent over 11 years at Amazon (2009–2020). I was a Principal Engineer in the Developer Tools organization, which owned all the CI/CD infrastructure and tooling for the company.

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React Basics: Microfrontend vs. Monorepos

Let’s explore the concepts of micro-frontends and monorepos, their pros and cons, and how they can work together. Frontend development has become increasingly complex over the years, and choosing the right architectural approach and development strategy is essential to building a performant, scalable and maintainable application.

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Patterns for Memory Efficient DOM Manipulation

Let’s continue the modern vanilla JavaScript series! I’ll discuss best practices to avoid excess memory usage when managing updating the DOM to make your apps blazingly fast™️.

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What’s new in TypeScript 5.6

TypeScript 5.6 beta has been released, introducing several powerful new features that aim to catch common programming errors and enhance support for iterables. These updates not only improve code safety but also bring new capabilities to developers, helping to streamline the development process.

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