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performance.maxAssetSize is the least of it. A real production optimization checklist - persistent caching, deterministic hashing, and a CI gate…
The unified query/mutation API, first-class Suspense, and how the new staleTime: Infinity idiom changes the way we think about server…
Schema validation at the boundary, not just the form. How we replaced generated API clients with a thin Zod-typed fetch…
Most 'realtime' features are one-directional: notifications, live dashboards, streaming AI tokens. SSE handles all of them with plain HTTP. When…
Rolldown replaces Rollup under the hood, ESM-first becomes the default, and the plugin API gets a cleaner shape. Here's what…
10 MB installers vs 150 MB, Rust vs Node at the core, and the system-webview tax nobody mentions in benchmarks.…
Cold starts are dead, V8 isolates won, and Node-on-the-edge is finally boring. A field report from shipping production workloads on…
Server functions blur the client/server line. We unpack the mental model, where TanStack Start nails it, and the foot-guns to…
Native CSS variables, the new @theme directive, and what we learned tearing out tailwind.config.js for good.
Streaming UI, optimistic tool calls, and graceful degradation when the model is wrong. Patterns worth stealing even if your app…