Emilia Sonder

What's more annoying than trying to figure out why your local changes aren't applying on the production website?

It's always the people

I've been working on a large app in Next.js, and there are no state managers at all. No RTK, no Zustand. It's been.. interesting. Seems like a project can do perfectly fine without them

It's a small thing, but getting all 100s on PageSpeed Insights instantly made my day better

I really don't like how much credit people give to AI these days

Whenever something feels too complex, I try to name things more clearly. Half the time, renaming a variable or file is enough to untangle the logic

Just shared a new post on dev.to about the architecture I've been working on. Detailed documentation is now available 🎉

Excited to announce that Googling is still a better skill than writing prompts for ChatGPT :)

I just tell myself I'll do it for 5 minutes only. But once I've started, I can't stop until I'm done

Just posted on dev.to for the first time. 🎉 Felt like the right time to start putting things into words

Hey, that's clever! That's actually how I remembered the difference between call and apply in JS too, Apply takes an Array

Sometimes I'm not sure if I’m writing code or just carefully avoiding making everything worse

It's funny how the tools that are meant to make things easier often end up being the reason everything feels so complicated

It's normal, sometimes you just need to let yourself rest

If SEO is a priority, there's not much choice. Otherwise, the trade-offs might be annoying

Just found out the hard way that using styled-components in Next.js is a bad idea. Server-side rendering issues, hydration mismatches.. lesson learned

Depends on what you're going for exactly. But I feel like it might require some JS code as well

How did you find out about :enabled?

Wait.. I've been doing that my whole life 😭

If a project has been in production for over a year, there’s at least one piece of code no one understands anymore 🥲

Opening an old project is like reading your old texts. You have no idea why you wrote that, but it's too late to take it back

Yeah, exactly. Some existing architectures feel too rigid or overcomplicated, which actually makes extending apps harder than it should be. I wanted something structured but flexible enough to scale without unnecessary complexity.

Building my own front-end architecture. It’s been a challenge, but also a really interesting process. Experimenting with different structures, refining what works, and making sure it stays clear and scalable.

Woah, I wish I had found Mantine UI earlier. I'm never touching MUI again

Thanks for your reply! What are "domains" exactly in your case? Are you following an existing architecture approach or is it something of your own?

I recently saw your post about barrel files and I'm using it as one of the references for a front-end architecture I'm working on. Are you still against barrel files and what are your thoughts on FSD?

It’s wild how much frontend has changed. I started with just HTML & CSS, then React, then Next.js… at this rate, in five years, we’ll be writing websites in a whole new language.

Fellow frontend dev, welcome 🎉

Real. Frontend dev is just collecting years of experience while still googling the same 5 things

The more I look at FSD, the more it feels like a solution looking for a problem. It adds layers of complexity, but for what? Everyone implements it differently, and instead of solving structure issues, it just creates new ones. Overrated, to put it mildly.