Building Accessible React Components
React.js

Building Accessible React Components

A blind user filed a support ticket for our app. Lighthouse said our accessibility score was 94. The user couldn't complete a single task. Here's what I learned about building React components that actually work for everyone.

11 min read 2,922 views
#accessibility #react #aria #screen-readers
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React Performance Optimization Techniques
React.js

React Performance Optimization Techniques

Most React performance advice sounds great in a blog post and falls apart in a real codebase. I've spent years profiling production apps, and the bottlenecks are almost never where you'd guess. Here's what actually matters -- from the memo traps everyone falls into, to the virtualization wins that saved our dashboards, to the React 18 concurrent features that changed how I think about responsiveness.

12 min read 2,006 views
#react #performance #optimization #memoization
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Building a REST API with Express: Patterns That Actually Scale
Express.js

Building a REST API with Express: Patterns That Actually Scale

Every Express tutorial ends at app.get('/hello'). Here's what I've actually learned shipping Express APIs to production -- project layout, error handling that doesn't make you cry, validation, and the middleware patterns our team relies on.

10 min read 7,693 views
#express #rest-api #backend #best-practices
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JavaScript Closures Explained With Real-World Examples
JavaScript

JavaScript Closures Explained With Real-World Examples

Closures clicked for me when I stopped reading definitions and started looking at code I'd already written. Turns out I'd been using them for years without knowing it. Here's how I'd explain them to someone on my team.

7 min read 4,113 views
#closures #javascript #fundamentals #interviews
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