
React State Management with Reatom: When useState Stops Being Enough
Most React state doesn't need a library. Then one workflow grows into drafts, derived values, undo, optimistic steps, and cross-component coordination. This is where I reach for Reatom instead of turning TanStack Query into a client-state store.
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Stop Quizzing Senior Engineers — Start Talking to Them (TL;DR)
The condensed version: why conversational interviews beat trivia quizzes for senior roles, with practical examples and actionable advice.
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Stop Quizzing Senior Engineers — Start Talking to Them
Why conversational interviews produce better hiring signal than algorithmic puzzles and API trivia — and how one interview with a guy named John changed how I think about hiring.
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Routing with TanStack Router: Treat the URL Like Application State
Routing is not just rendering a page for a path. In serious React apps, the URL carries product state: filters, tabs, pagination, selected records, redirects, and preload decisions. TanStack Router makes that state typed instead of hopeful.
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React Data Fetching with TanStack Query: The Patterns That Keep Apps Calm
TanStack Query is not just a better useEffect. It is the server-state layer of your React app. The hard part is not fetching data — it is designing keys, freshness, invalidation, pagination, and prefetching so the UI stays predictable.
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Error Handling in React: What Users Should See When Things Break
Error handling is not a catch block sprinkled at the end. In a React + TanStack app, it is a product decision: what fails locally, what fails at the route level, what can retry, and what the user needs to do next.
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Code Structure in React: The FSD Version I Actually Use
Flat folders are fine until every feature starts touching routes, queries, forms, permissions, and UI state. Here's the React structure I use when a TanStack app grows past the simple stage without turning FSD into folder theater.
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TypeScript in React: Patterns That Actually Matter
Not a TypeScript tutorial. A focused look at the patterns that eliminate real production bugs in React + TanStack apps — typed API layers, discriminated unions for async state, route param inference, and generic components done right.
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Designing Project Documentation for AI Coding Agents
How structured documentation dramatically improves AI-generated code quality by giving agents the context they need.
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Starting a New React Project in 2026-2027: The Stack I Keep Coming Back To
Every new React project starts with the same question: which tools? After years of watching teams assemble mismatched libraries that fight each other, I stopped choosing independently. This is the coherent stack I now use by default — and why.
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