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Next.js dominates the frontend — but not because it’s good. Here’s what the hype glosses over.
Next.js is dominating the React ecosystem in 2025. Not because it’s perfect — but because it’s strategic.
Framework tribalism doesn’t just waste energy — it wrecks clarity, bloats codebases, and turns developers into dogmatists. Here's how to stay sharp.
Linting was supposed to help us catch bugs. Somewhere along the way, it became a religion. It's time to stop worshipping the tooling.
Frontend dev has become a form of devops cosplay. Let’s talk about the real cost of overbuilding your toolchain.
Most apps don’t fail because they can’t scale — they fail because they never shipped. Premature scaling is a self-imposed tax on momentum.