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Jul 7, 2025

Zustand: A Guide to Scalable State Management

Zustand (German for state) is a minimalist, unopinionated state management solution for React and JavaScript apps. It provides a powerful…

Zustand: A Guide to Scalable State Management

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Jul 3, 2025

How React Query Optimizes Rendering: A Deep Dive into Structural Sharing and More

React Query has emerged as one of the most powerful tools in the React ecosystem for managing server state. But beyond its amazing caching…

How React Query Optimizes Rendering: A Deep Dive into Structural Sharing and More

Ram Krishnan

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Jul 4

Understanding the Next.js Build Pipeline

A deep dive into what actually happens between next build and the artifacts that ship to production

Understanding the Next.js Build Pipeline

Ram Krishnan

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Jun 19

Why Your Next.js Build Is Slow (And How To Actually Fix It)

Understanding dependency graphs, client boundaries, bundle bloat, and the architectural decisions that silently destroy build performance.

Why Your Next.js Build Is Slow (And How To Actually Fix It)

Ram Krishnan

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May 18

Silky-Smooth React Animations Without the Overhead

Introducing @vaerone/use-flip, a tiny, zero-dependency library that brings GPU-accelerated layout animations to any React app.

Silky-Smooth React Animations Without the Overhead

Ram Krishnan

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Apr 28

Config-Driven Frontends: Treating UI as Data (Without Losing Control)

Most frontend systems don’t struggle because of React, they struggle because UI logic is rigid and tightly coupled to deployments.

Config-Driven Frontends: Treating UI as Data (Without Losing Control)

Ram Krishnan

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Mar 31

CSS Layout Systems at Scale: A Systems View of Grid, Flexbox, and Rendering Constraints

Most engineers learn CSS layout as a set of tools. System engineers treat it as a constraint-solving system embedded in the browser’s…

CSS Layout Systems at Scale: A Systems View of Grid, Flexbox, and Rendering Constraints

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Feb 16

requestAnimationFrame and the Critical Rendering Path: Fixing Timing, Not Performance

Introduction

requestAnimationFrame and the Critical Rendering Path: Fixing Timing, Not Performance

Ram Krishnan

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Feb 5

Understanding Go Middleware Through net/http

Middleware is one of the most commonly used concepts in Go web services and one of the least clearly understood. Most developers encounter…

Understanding Go Middleware Through net/http

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JavaScript in Plain English

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Jan 15

Cross-JavaScript Realm Communication: Treat It Like a Boundary

Most frontend performance issues don’t come from slow code.

Cross-JavaScript Realm Communication: Treat It Like a Boundary

Ram Krishnan

Ram Krishnan

Writing about frontend and backend systems: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Go, memory, GC, profiling, networking, and distributed systems.

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