The Direction of the Arrows: Dependencies Are Your Real Architecture
Draw your app's architecture on a whiteboard and it always looks clean. Neat boxes, sensible names, tidy layers stacked top to bottom. Every...
Jul 30, 2026
7 min
The shared/ Folder Is Not a Place, It's a Promise
Open the shared/ folder in almost any React app that's been alive for a year. Count the files. Then try to explain, out loud, what the folde...
Jul 30, 2026
8 min
The Smeared Component: When Architecture Scatters What Should Stay Together
I've been writing code since 2003. That's over twenty years of watching patterns come and go — and occasionally making the same mistakes the...
Jul 30, 2026
6 min
Code Structure in React: The FSD Version I Actually Use
At the insurance company, our React app started with a structure I still like for small projects. src/ api/ components/ hooks/ layouts/ page...
Jul 30, 2026
9 min