Blog Archive
State Management in Flutter: Riverpod vs. Bloc
A hands-on comparison of Riverpod 3.x and Bloc 9.x for Flutter state management, building and testing the same counter and async-list features in both, with guidance on when to choose each.
Async in Dart: Isolates, Futures, and Streams Deep Dive
A code-first deep dive into Dart concurrency: how the event loop drives Futures and Streams, and how isolates unlock real parallelism for CPU-bound work like image processing.
Flutter: What's New for Production Apps in 2026
A practical tour of the 2026 Flutter stack for production engineers: the quarterly stable release train, Impeller as the default renderer, Dart 3.10 dot shorthands, DevTools, and build-size hardening.
Database Indexing for Web Developers
A hands-on guide to PostgreSQL indexes for web developers: B-tree, composite, partial, expression, and GIN/trigram indexes, plus how to read EXPLAIN ANALYZE to actually measure wins.
WebAssembly in the Browser: Real-World Use Cases
A practical tour of WebAssembly in the browser: what it is, how its memory model works, real production use cases, and a hands-on Rust-to-wasm example compiled with wasm-bindgen.
Kubernetes for Frontend Teams: A Gentle Introduction
A beginner-friendly, code-first tour of Kubernetes for frontend engineers: core objects like Pods, Deployments, Services and Ingress, plus a complete YAML bundle to deploy a React SPA and API with health checks.
Docker for Web Developers: Images That Ship
A code-first walkthrough of writing Dockerfiles for web apps that actually ship: multi-stage builds, non-root users, .dockerignore, secrets, BuildKit caching, and docker compose for local dev.
API Design Best Practices: REST, RPC, and Beyond
A practical guide to designing APIs that scale: REST resource modeling, HTTP semantics, gRPC and protocol buffers, and when GraphQL, JSON-RPC, or tRPC fit better, with runnable FastAPI and gRPC examples.
Secure Web Apps: CSRF, XSS, and CSP in 2026
CSRF, XSS, and CSP through the lens of the OWASP Top 10 2025: synchronizer tokens, SameSite, context-aware encoding, Trusted Types, and a nonce-based Content Security Policy that actually ships.
Testing Your Frontend: Vitest, Playwright, and Visual Regressions
A leveled-up frontend test strategy for 2026: unit and component tests in Vitest 4, end-to-end flows in Playwright, and pixel-comparison visual regressions — with a CI-ready workflow.
GraphQL Federation at Scale
Splitting one GraphQL API into composable subgraphs with Apollo Federation v2. Entities, @key directives, reference resolvers, supergraph composition, and batching entity lookups so queries stay fast as teams multiply.
Deno: A Modern Runtime for Server-Side JavaScript
Deno 2 in production: the secure-by-default permission model, native TypeScript, the npm and JSR ecosystems, std modules, and the web-standard APIs that make server code boring to write.