Thoughts on software engineering, architecture, and the web.
Long-form writing on the parts of frontend work that do not fit in a tweet. Each post is the deep dive I wish I had when I started — a problem I ran into on a real project, the pattern that fixed it, and the trade-offs I would not make again.
Topics cover React server components, Next.js App Router, TypeScript patterns, performance work, accessibility, and the product-engineering decisions behind shipping production software. I publish when there is something worth saying, not on a schedule.
If a post is part of a series, it is grouped here. Otherwise it lives under "More Posts." Each card links to the full article and carries a reading time so you know what you are getting into.
Most posts come out of the ankurhalder-frontend codebase — a Next.js 16 App Router site on React 19, TypeScript, MongoDB Atlas, and a private Linux server behind a Cloudflare Tunnel. When I spend two days tracing a dual-write proxy bug or a Turbopack build-time regression, the post that follows is the write-up I wanted to find on someone else's blog beforehand. That means concrete architecture decisions, the actual diff that fixed it, and the trade-offs I accepted.
Recurring topics include React Server Component boundaries, TypeScript pattern design for content registries, MongoDB indexing and dual-write reliability, Vercel Fluid CPU cost tuning, AI/chatbot integration against a self-hosted Ollama gateway, and the SEO work that keeps this site indexable without sacrificing build performance. Posts are tagged by topic and grouped by series when they belong together, so a multi-part deep dive reads in order instead of as scattered entries.
I publish when I have something worth saying, not on a cadence. If a topic is still evolving, it stays a draft until the pattern is proven in production. That is why the archive grows slowly and why every entry here is something I would still stand behind a year later.