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How I Built an In-Browser AI Workout Tracker Using React and MediaPipe 🏋️‍♂️🤖

Bringing real-time computer vision and biomechanical feedback to the client-side — with zero backend latency.

How to Fix CAPTCHA Refresh Issues Caused By Browser Caching

Your Date Picker Is Outdated. Here’s a Better Way.

Most React apps still use the same old date picker. It works… but it feels clunky, especially on mobile.

Why use Next.js instead of plain React?

🍕 The Analogy: Ordering Food at a Restaurant

React 19.2 New Features: A Complete Developer Guide

Activity, useEffectEvent, cacheSignal, and Partial Pre-Rendering — explained the way a senior dev would explain it over coffee, not a…

React 19.2 Is Out And It Subtly Changes The Way You’ll Build UIs Forever

React brings Activity, useEffectEvent, and page rendering bridging static dynamic pages as the third React release of the year.

Is FullCalendar Still the Best Choice in 2026?

A practical comparison of FullCalendar and SVAR Calendar for modern React, Vue, and Svelte applications.

How to Extract Text from Word in JavaScript: A React Guide

Extracting text from Word documents in JavaScript is a critical requirement for modern web applications. Whether you are building an online…

This One Library Is Why Senior React Engineers Finish Work by Afternoon

They aren’t smarter than you — they just stopped manually managing server state and let this library do 90% of the heavy lifting.

WebSockets in Next.js 16 need a second process — here's the setup

I burned an afternoon last year trying to write a WebSocket endpoint as a Next.js route handler. It compiled. It deployed. It never once…

React Hooks Explained from Scratch: The Complete Guide Every Developer Needs

Stop memorizing Hooks. Start understanding how they actually work.

HTMX Made Me Question Why I Reach for React by Default

It started with a Carson Gross talk I watched on a Friday evening. Not because someone told me to, but because the title was combative…

BrowserStack Frontend Developer Interview Experience

I recently came across an interview experience for the Frontend Developer role at BrowserStack. The interview process was heavily focused…

TypeScript Syntax Cheat Sheet for Beginners | Variables, Objects, Arrays, Functions & Generics

Learn the most important TypeScript syntax with simple examples, including variables, arrays, objects, functions, return types, interfaces…

I Got Tired of Switching Between 8 React Native Debugging Tools, So I Built One Instead

PulseRN is an open-source, local-first desktop debugger for React Native that brings logs, network requests, Redux, navigation…

The best shadcn/ui libraries in 2026

Last updated July 31, 2026.

I Got Tired of Wiring Electron, Vite, TypeScript and shadcn Together, So I Committed the Result

A small, unglamorous Electron boilerplate that already has the desktop plumbing, the TypeScript config and the whole shadcn/ui component…

Building a DICOM viewer is harder than building Instagram

Why displaying medical images is one of the most interesting frontend engineering challenges.

Why healthcare apps don’t work like normal web apps

The technology might look familiar, but the rules are completely different.

I Always Wanted to Know How Face Recognition Actually Works — So I Built a working Prototype

A beginner-to-intermediate developer’s tour of detection, alignment, embeddings, and matching — with the models industry uses and small…

I Thought Keycloak Would Solve Authentication. It Didn’t.

Authentication is easy. Identity is hard. Authorization is even harder.

How to Crash a Website Using JavaScript : Weaponizing the Event Loop

How to freeze the JS main thread, trigger microtask starvation, and drop your UI to 0 FPS by exploiting the architecture of the Event Loop.

The Paradox of Self-Reliance: What Emerson Still Teaches Us About Independence, Community, and…

How I Built a Custom Launcher with React and Tauri

Turning a Windows security blockade into an opportunity to create the ultimate desktop workspace gadget.

The Frontend Bug That Only Happened for Real Users

The code worked in development because our environment was clean, fast, and predictable. Real users brought the conditions our tests never…

How to Export HTML to Word in React: A JavaScript Guide

Generating Word documents from HTML content is a common requirement in modern web applications. However, traditional server‑side…

React 19 Server Components in Next.js 15: A Practical Guide

React 19 and Next.js 15 quietly flipped frontend architecture on its head: your React tree is now server-first by default. If you’re still…

React Native CI/CD: Build a Reliable Pipeline to App Store

I Parsed My Friend’s Capgemini Frontend Interview Notes. Here is the Complete Breakdown

A good friend of mine recently went through the grinder for a Mid-to-Senior Frontend Developer (React.js) role at Capgemini. After he…

Okta SDE-2 Frontend Interview Experience | 45 LPA

Role: Software Development Engineer 2 — Frontend Interview Mode: Online (Coding + Technical Discussion)

Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Pass Props for Your useState Hook.

Let’s imagine a scenario where you’re building an ‘Edit Form’. You fetch some data in a parent component, pass it down to a child component…

MoniePoint Frontend Interview Experience | 55 LPA Remote

Recently, I interviewed for the Frontend Engineer role at Moniepoint. Shortly after submitting my application, I received an invitation for…

Six Bugs I Found Before Launch That Would Have Shipped Silently

A stale cache, two dead code paths, a retry loop that ignores the server. All passed review. None threw errors.

Vercel Reinvents React Native, Sub-Second OTA Updates, and an X Button Finally Doing Its Job

You’re reading The React Native Rewind #49.

🚀 Day 9 of Learning React: Why Every Form Needs Validation (React Hook Form Made It Surprisingly…

📌 Missed Day 8? I explored why React doesn’t usually let us work directly with the DOM, how useRef() gives us access to real DOM elements…

Stop Exploiting Boolean States in React.

When you first learn how to fetch data , the tutorials are always awfully simple. You fetch a list of items, put them into a state…

Context is Key: The useContext Hook and How to Utilize it

Why am I up this late? You ask yourself for the third time this week. Your computer screen glows dimly as your eyes are spared by your…

🚀 Day 8 of Learning React: Why Doesn’t React Use the DOM Directly?

📌 Missed Day 7? I explored why sibling components can’t share state directly, how lifting state up works, and why moving state to the…

🚀 Day 7 of Learning React: How Do Components Share Data? Understanding Lifting State Up

📌 Missed Day 6? I explored how React renders components, why immutable updates matter, how HMR works behind the scenes, and different…

Most Frontend Complexity Starts With One Wrong Source of Truth

Frontend bugs become harder to trace when the same truth lives in local state, URL params, server data, cache, and global stores at the…

React Folder Structures That Actually Scale

If you’ve ever started a React project, you’ve probably asked the same question:

The Stale Closure Problem in React.

Building a countdown timer in React sounds like a very basic, beginner-level task. You set up a state variable, declare a setInterval…

React 19 useFormStatus and useFormState: Build Accessible Forms Without Extra State Libraries

What is TanStack Query? Detailed guide to powerful state management

Today, we are going to learn TanStack Query (formerly known as React Query).

Inside the KPMG Frontend Developer Interview: ReactJS, Performance, and Problem-Solving

I Customized the Keycloak Admin Console UI to Add Custom Pages

Introduction

The Dangerous Shortcut That Every React Beginner Takes.

You are building a new project— maybe a shopping list, a dashboard feed, or a simple todo app. You write a clean .map() function to loop…

React Finally Made Sense — Part 1

Chapter 1: The Core Philosophy & The Ecosystem

Zero-Cost Deployments: How to Host Your Frontend, Backend, and Databases for Free in 2026

Every software engineer knows the specific thrill of finishing a brilliant side project on localhost. The features flow seamlessly, the…

🚀 Deploy a Full Stack React Application (Firebase + Render) — Complete Deployment Guide (2026)

Deploying your application is one of the most exciting parts of web development. After spending hours building features, authentication…