#Frontend
5 articles — newest first.
- 8 min read
How I stop re-renders in big React forms: uncontrolled refs
Production tactics for large React forms: use uncontrolled inputs, refs, and event delegation to kill keystroke re-renders while keeping validation sane.
- 10 min read
Optimistic React UIs that don't drift from the server
How I ship optimistic UI in React without state drift: versioned writes, idempotency keys, React Query/Zustand patterns, and the rollback math.
- 8 min read
When useMemo actually helps in React 19, and how to measure it
A blunt, practical guide to useMemo in React 19: where it genuinely helps, where it’s noise, and how to profile renders before you cargo‑cult memoization.
- 10 min read
Stop mixing render and domain state in React dashboards
A pragmatic split for large React 18 dashboards: keep server/domain data out of UI stores, cut re-renders and payloads with a thin serialization adapter.
- 6 min read
Cutting a Payload 94% With Custom Serialization Patterns
I cut a React Flow agent-graph payload 94% without losing a node — not with gzip, but by shaping a custom serialization format around the data: schema, not prose.