We mistook event handling for architecture

Events are essential inputs to modern front-end systems. But when we mistake reactions for architecture, complexity quietly multiplies. Over time, many front-end architectures have come to resemble chains of reactions rather than models of structure. The result is systems that are expressive, but increasingly difficult to reason about. A different architectural perspective is beginning to…

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The right way to architect modern web applications

For decades, web architecture has followed a familiar and frankly exhausting pattern. A dominant approach emerges, gains near-universal adoption, reveals its cracks under real-world scale, and is eventually replaced by a new “best practice” that promises to fix everything the last one broke. We saw it in the early 2000s, when server-rendered, monolithic applications were…

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