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Ìrísí - A React Library for Building Product Videos in JSX

A few months ago, I needed to create a product demo video for something I was building. Nothing fancy, just a clean walkthrough showing the feature, how it works, what it looks like in action. I did what most engineers do. Opened a screen recorder, ran through the flow, hoped

How I Built "Wordshot" a Word Game That Scales to 10 Million Words (And the Architecture Decisions That Made It Possible)

Most word games have a few thousand words. I collected 10.2 million. What started as "let me scrape some names" turned into a three-week hardwork that forced every architectural decision I made afterward. This is the story of building WordShot, a real-time multiplayer word game where players

Maybe You Only Need Vanilla JavaScript: Challenging the Framework-First Mindset

Have you ever reached for create-react-app to build a simple counter? Or spun up Next.js for a page with three buttons? If you're nodding your head, you're not alone. Somewhere between 2015 and now, we collectively decided that frameworks aren't just useful, they&

JavaScript Lexical Scope and Compilation

Part 2 of the JavaScript Deep Dive Series Before JavaScript executes a single line of your code, something crucial happens behind the scenes. While most developers think JavaScript executes and runs code line by line(I know I mentioned this in the first series), the reality is more sophisticated and

Component Thinking: How React Changed My Entire Design Approach

Hey there, Coding Chefs! 👨‍💻 Ever built a website where you had to copy the same header HTML to 15 different pages? Then later, when you needed to add just one link to that header, you had to hunt down and update all 15 files? Yeah, that's the nightmare

Beginner's guide to Javascript LocalStorage

LocalStorage and sessionStorage are not really data stores. They are facades over a browser-managed backing store, with quotas, scoping rules, security implications, and hidden behaviors that the API surface does not hint at. This is a deep dive on what those facades actually wrap. We will start at the surface