Deep dives into modern web development, engineering practices, and my personal journey.
Headless components separate behavior and state from rendering, so the same dropdown logic can power a basic select, a combobox, and a command palette without duplicating a line of state management.
Before, you'd run the trace, describe what you saw, and hand it back to the agent as prose. Chrome DevTools MCP cuts out the relay so the agent runs the trace itself.
Children composition handles rendering decisions, but when sibling components need shared state, you need compound components with Context. Here's how to build them correctly.
Most prop explosion problems have the same root cause: components making rendering decisions they shouldn't own. Here's how children-based composition fixes it across buttons, cards, alerts, form fields, and layouts.
Most React apps only scratch the surface of browser storage. This guide breaks down the five caching layers, from in-memory state to the HTTP cache, when to use each one, and how to connect them in a Next.js app.