Web Engineering — Page 3 of 10
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Migrating From No-Code to Production Code: Architecture Decisions, Data Migration, and Scaling Beyond Platform Limits
A founder's guide to escaping Bubble, Webflow, or Glide. Covers the decision framework for when to migrate, how to choose your new stack, incremental migration patterns that avoid the big rewrite, data migration strategy, and production hardening.
Contract-First API Development with OpenAPI: Schema-Driven Validation, Type Generation, and Client SDK Automation in TypeScript
Contract-first API development means writing the OpenAPI spec before writing a single route handler. This guide covers the full workflow: type generation with openapi-typescript, request/response validation in Hono and Next.js, mock servers for frontend teams, client SDK generation, contract testing in CI, and strategies for evolving contracts without breaking consumers.
Building Resilient API Clients in TypeScript: Rate Limit Handling, Adaptive Throttling, and Retry Coordination for Third-Party Integrations
Every SaaS app integrates with third-party APIs that enforce rate limits differently. This guide covers token buckets, adaptive throttling, Redis-coordinated distributed limits, circuit breaking, and monitoring — with a reusable TypeScript HTTP client wrapper.
Designing API Authentication for B2B SaaS: API Keys, OAuth Client Credentials, and Scoped Access Tokens
A production guide to B2B API authentication covering API key generation and hashing, OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow, scoped access tokens, rate limiting per key, audit logging, webhook signature verification, key rotation, and key compromise response in TypeScript.
Backend for Frontend Pattern: API Composition, Client-Specific Endpoints, and Reducing Frontend Complexity
A production guide to the BFF pattern: when to introduce a dedicated backend layer per client, how to implement one with Hono on Cloudflare Workers, where GraphQL fits versus REST, authentication forwarding, caching strategies, and the real operational cost of maintaining multiple BFFs.
Svelte 5 and SvelteKit in Production: Runes, Server Loading, and When to Choose Svelte Over React
Svelte 5 ships a new reactivity model built on runes, and SvelteKit's server-first loading story has matured. This is a practical guide for teams deciding whether SvelteKit belongs in production over Next.js App Router in 2026.
Next.js Parallel Routes and Intercepting Routes in Production: Modal Patterns, Conditional Layouts, and Advanced Routing Architectures
Parallel routes and intercepting routes in Next.js App Router unlock modal dialogs with real URLs, conditional sidebars, and split-pane layouts that survive page refresh. This guide covers the slot conventions, real production patterns with TypeScript, common pitfalls, and an honest tradeoffs comparison.
TanStack Router in Production: Type-Safe Routing, Search Param Validation, and Data Loading Patterns for React SPAs
A deep dive into TanStack Router for React SPAs: fully-typed route trees, search param schemas with Zod, loader patterns, authentication guards, TanStack Query integration, deferred streaming, lazy routes, and migration from React Router v6.
Zod in Production: Schema Validation, API Contracts, and Type-Safe Data Pipelines in TypeScript
A practical guide to using Zod beyond form validation. Covers schema composition, API contract enforcement in Hono and Next.js, environment variable parsing, database row validation, shared frontend/backend contracts, error formatting, performance tuning, and migration from io-ts or Yup.
Implementing Optimistic Updates in React: Mutation Strategies, Rollback Patterns, and Server Reconciliation
How to build React UIs that update immediately on user action and safely reconcile with server state, covering useOptimistic, TanStack Query, error rollback, and conflict resolution.
Passkeys and WebAuthn in Production: Passwordless Authentication, Device Credential Management, and Migration Strategies
A practical guide to WebAuthn registration and authentication ceremonies in TypeScript, credential storage and lifecycle management, cross-device hybrid transport, conditional UI for passkey autofill, migrating password users to passkeys, and the real production challenges of device-bound credential management.
Building a Form Engine in TypeScript: JSON Schema-Driven Rendering, Conditional Logic, and Multi-Step Validation
How to build a dynamic form engine that renders from JSON schema definitions, handles conditional field visibility, manages multi-step wizard state, and integrates Zod validation with resume-later persistence.