Essays on frontend, backend, databases, and deployment — the practical details of website development that only show up once you ship real projects.
SSR, SSG, ISR, CSR — the acronyms hide a simple question: when should the HTML for a page be produced? A practical tour using an e-commerce store and a blog as running examples.
MongoDB will accept whatever shape you throw at it, which is exactly why schema design matters more, not less. Lessons from job portals, stores, and LMS builds.
Before you rewrite in the framework of the week, open the network tab. Nine times out of ten the culprit is images, blocking scripts, or a chatty API — in that order.
You do not need GraphQL, gRPC, or a gateway. You need consistent URLs, honest status codes, and error messages a frontend developer can act on at 11pm.
Custom properties for tokens, a handful of layout classes, and components that own their own styles. You can get a long way before you need Tailwind — if you are disciplined about three things.
LocalStorage tokens, refresh-token choreography, third-party auth platforms — most small applications need none of it. An httpOnly cookie and bcrypt cover the real requirement.
Platform hosting is wonderful until the invoice or the limits arrive. A plain VPS with nginx, pm2, and certbot remains the most durable way to ship client work — here is the full recipe.