React, Next.js, Tauri, Tailwind
A Tauri build with output: export does not contain Next.js server routes or redirects. Sharing the same application code does not mean that web and desktop have the same runtime capabilities.
As a library grows, finding the same article again becomes harder. Search and categories help people discover something new. Recent history helps them return to something known. Neither replaces the other.
A dashboard is a mirror of the domains your product owns. With 5 domains and only 3 widgets, users instinctively suspect "the other 2 must be unfinished." Uniformity is less an aesthetic concern than a feature-recogniti…
An internal admin site, viewed numerically, is the sum of dozens of list pages. Users, posts, point transactions, reports. If each page is built differently, operators re-learn the UI per page and developers re-copy the…
A skeleton flicker on a fast page is unpleasant. A long blank screen on a slow page is anxious. Both share the same root cause — fallback only sits at the route level.
What sets desktop and mobile apps apart from web apps is usually OS integration. Toast notifications, system trays, file dialogs, clipboard, autostart, global shortcuts, and deep links are frequent items in that list.
The three areas of human writing (text in images), human speech (sound), and the reverse of synthesized voice run on different stacks but are often bundled together inside an app.
SQLite is an embedded database that holds a SQL database in a single file. It is one of the most frequently chosen options for local storage in desktop and mobile apps.
From Tauri 2, Android and iOS became first-class citizens. Mobile apps have different distribution and monetization models from desktop.
Frontend bundlers have branched out rapidly over the past decade or so.
Forms are the part you meet most often in any app.
Material Design is a design system Google announced in 2014. It went through a major revision in 2021 with Material 3 (M3).
Internationalization (i18n) is the work of making an app behave naturally across multiple languages and regions.
The idea of building desktop apps with HTML/CSS/JS is not new. The two largest branches are Electron and Tauri, and although they look similar, their architectures are quite different.
Tailwind CSS is the flagship of the so-called utility-first approach to styling.
State management in React apps creates confusion because there are many libraries. The biggest fork, however, is not the library choice but whether the state belongs to the client or to the server.
Next.js is a framework that bundles server rendering, routing, and bundling on top of React.
React 19 marks one of React's larger inflection points. Among its changes, React Compiler automates some of the memoization that used to be written by hand.