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Aug 17, 2022

React re-renders guide: preventing unnecessary re-renders

Most important patterns that can prevent React components re-renders

React re-renders guide: preventing unnecessary re-renders

Nadia Makarevich

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May 22

Building the Playground: How to Prep Your Codebase for AI Coders

How’s your codebase doing with the AI Coding taking over? Are you crying in your sleep at the thought of yet another “AI slop” PR expecting…

Building the Playground: How to Prep Your Codebase for AI Coders

Nadia Makarevich

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Apr 30

How AI Remembers and Why It Forgets: Part 2. Tools and Agents

In part 1 of this series How AI Remembers and Why It Forgets: Part 1. The Context Problem, we determined that there is no such thing as AI…

How AI Remembers and Why It Forgets: Part 2. Tools and Agents

Nadia Makarevich

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Apr 7

How AI Remembers and Why It Forgets: Part 1. The Context Problem

How does AI actually remember things between messages, and why does it forget halfway through?

How AI Remembers and Why It Forgets: Part 1. The Context Problem

Nadia Makarevich

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Feb 17

Debugging with AI: Can It Replace an Experienced Developer?

Can AI debug complex React/Next.js issues? I tested it on three real bugs, investigated the root cause myself and wrote down the result.

Debugging with AI: Can It Replace an Experienced Developer?

Nadia Makarevich

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Jan 26

Can You Fetch Data with React Server Actions?

Can React Server Actions replace fetch for client-side data fetching? Let’s investigate and find out.

Can You Fetch Data with React Server Actions?

Nadia Makarevich

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Dec 11, 2025

Bundle Size Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Shrinking Your JavaScript

A practical guide to analyzing and reducing JavaScript bundle size. Learn bundle analysis, fix tree-shaking issues, remove duplicates, etc..

Bundle Size Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Shrinking Your JavaScript

Nadia Makarevich

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Oct 28, 2025

React Server Components: Do They Really Improve Performance?

A data-driven comparison of CSR, SSR, and RSC, focusing on initial-load performance and the impact of different data fetching patterns

React Server Components: Do They Really Improve Performance?

Nadia Makarevich

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Oct 2, 2025

React State Management in 2025: What You Actually Need

Learn how to manage state in modern React apps, what is remote, URL, local, and shared state, and when you need a state management library

React State Management in 2025: What You Actually Need

Nadia Makarevich

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Aug 26, 2025

Can We Use Local Storage Instead of Context-Redux-Zustand?

Why do we need Context/Redux/Zustand in React, what is the purpose of Local Storage, its limitations, and when to use it.

Can We Use Local Storage Instead of Context-Redux-Zustand?

Nadia Makarevich

Nadia Makarevich

Frontend architect, coder. https://www.developerway.com. Advanced React book: https://www.advanced-react.com

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