Notes / Frontend engineering
Practical notes on Angular, React, rendering, state, AI product integration, and the decisions behind maintainable frontend systems.
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How I modernized the AnalogJS portfolio—from the Angular 17-era watering hole to a signals-first, Vitest-ready build with automated navigation, richer previews, and a stage-ready upgrade roadmap.
A practical guide to wiring up Stripe subscriptions, Clerk authentication, and Convex as a real-time backend — covering webhooks, entitlement logic, and GPT package syncing in a Next.js SaaS app.
A practical account of updating an AnalogJS portfolio, repairing its Angular test setup, moving to zoneless change detection, and cutting about 40 kB from the main bundle without fragile chunk tricks.
What happened after the zoneless migration: Lighthouse baselines, responsive WebP images, deferred Botpress, self-hosted fonts, and a mobile performance score that moved from 82 to 98.
An in-depth look at Angular signals, their advantages, when they became available, and how they differ from other state management solutions.
In this guide, we explore adding robust navigation and custom ordering to a Gatsby-fronted, WordPress-backed JAMstack app. From configuring page navigation in Gatsby templates to tweaking build commands for optimal caching on Netlify, we’ve got you covered.