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The Era of the SPA and Its Unintended Consequences For the better part of a decade, the Single-Page Application (SPA) has been the undisputed king of frontend development. Frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue empowered us to build incredibly rich, interactive, and app-like experiences directly in the browser. They solved the clunky, full-page reloads of…
Why Core Web Vitals Still Reign Supreme in 2024 In the ever-evolving landscape of frontend development, one constant remains: the user’s insatiable demand for speed. A slow, janky website isn’t just an inconvenience; it’s a direct path to lost conversions, frustrated users, and a plummeting search engine ranking. This is where Google’s Core Web Vitals…
The Dawn of a New Era in Frontend Development For years, the world of frontend development has been a landscape of meticulous, hands-on craftsmanship. From hand-coding CSS layouts to painstakingly debugging JavaScript, the process has been defined by human intellect and problem-solving. But the ground is shifting. A new, powerful force is entering the scene,…
What Are Micro-Frontends, Really? For years, the world of frontend development has been dominated by monolithic architectures. We build large, single-page applications (SPAs) where every feature, every component, and every line of code is bundled into a single, massive codebase. While this approach works for smaller projects, it starts to crack under the pressure of…