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Appesto Engineering

Practical articles, technical guides, tutorials, development notes, research, and insights covering software engineering and emerging technologies.

React July 3, 2026

TanStack Query owns server state. The question is what owns the rest. Zustand, Jotai, and Redux Toolkit each have a…

AI July 2, 2026

Server-Sent Events, optimistic UI, and graceful fallbacks. The patterns we've settled on for building AI features that feel responsive even…

Webpack July 1, 2026

Loaders transform files. Plugins do everything else. We build a plugin that writes build metadata to a JSON file on…

Tooling June 30, 2026

Jest is dead for new projects. Vitest took the unit test layer. Playwright's component testing is now stable. Here's the…

Tooling June 28, 2026

Remote caching is free on Vercel. pnpm workspaces + Turborepo is the settled stack. Here's the folder structure, turbo.json, and…

TypeScript June 27, 2026

tRPC v11 adds React Server Component support. GraphQL Federation v2 matured. REST now has universal OpenAPI 3.1 tooling. The decision…

Database June 26, 2026

Drizzle overtook Prisma in npm downloads for new projects. Prisma 7 fixed the edge cold start problem. Here's an honest…

Design Systems June 25, 2026

The View Transitions API is now a Baseline feature in all major browsers. Here's how to use it in a…

Webpack June 24, 2026

ES module static analysis, the sideEffects field, and the three most common reasons dead code ends up in your bundle…

AI June 24, 2026

Vibe coding shipped MVPs. Agentic engineering is shipping production systems. Here's the workflow, the tooling stack, and exactly where each…