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I'm Maxi—a Staff Software Engineer who has been trying, failing, and sometimes succeeding at scaling frontend applications for the past 15 years.
I believe that the key to building scalable and maintainable frontends is to develop your software design and architecture skills. The good news is that there are lot of great design and architecture resources out there. The bad news is that most of them are not written with frontend engineers in mind.
That's why I'm writing Frontend at Scale. Every two weeks, I'll share with you my favorite resources and some of my own thoughts on the challenges of building large frontend applications. My hope is that you'll use these tools to level up your career as a frontend engineer, stretch your architecture muscles, and build better software that lasts longer.
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Looking for previous issues and articles? Check them out here 👇
December 8, 2024
Everything is a trade-off and how to keep track of your architectural decisions.
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November 10, 2024
Software complexity is an impossible enemy and why we must fight it anyway.
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October 27, 2024
How to care about anything without caring about everything.
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October 13, 2024
How to write code that is as easy to understand as a well-designed video game.
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September 29, 2024
Learning to code with AI without feeling terrible about it.
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September 15, 2024
The secret to building great software is writing really, really terrible code.
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September 1, 2024
Decoupling, orthogonality, and the principle of least knowledge in JavaScript.
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August 18, 2024
What the DRY Principle is really about, and how to get all of its benefits with none of its drawbacks.
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August 4, 2024
Stepping outside of your comfort zone, keeping your depth of knowledge, and other ways to level up your career.
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July 21, 2024
Is all coupling 'bad', or is there a 'good' kind of coupling? Also, why is it calling me on a Sunday morning?
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July 7, 2024
A full preview of Fundamentals of Frontend Architecture, an exclusive free giveaway, and the return of the bookshelf.
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June 23, 2024
A winning strategy for overcoming the fear of staring at a blank canvas.
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June 9, 2024
Solving hard problems, DOM performance, keeping up with the JS ecosystem, and much more.
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May 26, 2024
Should frontend developers know data structures and algorithms?
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May 12, 2024
How to keep your codebase in good shape by fixing small issues as they come up.
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April 28, 2024
Why breaking down large tasks is so important, and how to actually do it.
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April 16, 2024
Top full-stack development courses to level up your skills in 2024.
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April 14, 2024
Making architectural decisions, choosing trade-offs, and other impossible tasks.
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March 31, 2024
Why rewrites fail (and what to do instead)
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March 3, 2024
How to draw frontend architecture diagrams that actually make sense.
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February 18, 2024
What woodworkers and Jeff Bezos can teach us about software design.
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February 4, 2024
How to stop ourselves from trying to predict the future.
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January 21, 2024
How to balance boring technology and the need for innovation.
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January 10, 2024
An interactive guide to component composition with React Server Components
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January 7, 2024
How to find the right balance between too much and too little architecture.
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December 24, 2023
Looking forward to a 2024 full of exciting new projects, and a look back at the best of 2023.
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December 14, 2023
Ten fantastic books to level up your frontend development skills in 2024.
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December 10, 2023
Why tech debt isn't always a bad thing, a short but powerful book on software design, using cookies in Next.js, and one of my favorite technical talks of all time.
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November 26, 2023
Preparatory refactoring, empirical software design, the rules of programming, and what’s happening in the world of local-first development.
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November 12, 2023
The life-changing magic of organizing your codebase, hybrid rendering architectures, React server components, and how to draw beautiful diagrams.
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November 10, 2023
Building a fully-feature docs site with Astro and Starlight, including authentication and CMS support.
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October 22, 2023
Cognitive load, cohesion, simplicity, micro-frontends, naming things, and how selfishness is the key to good component design.
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October 8, 2023
Architecture, micro frontends, the design system ecosystem, and my favorite full-stack in a box type of book.
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September 24, 2023
Refactoring, islands architecture, component libraries, and a book about functional programming that doesn't require a Ph.D. in math.
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September 18, 2023
Strategies for communicating between interactive components using Islands Architecture, with examples using Astro and React.
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September 10, 2023
The cost of JavaScript, my top tips for measuring and optimizing performance, and how wasps can help us ship faster websites.
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August 27, 2023
Prototyping, reactivity, the golden era of CSS, and giving technical books a second chance.
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August 13, 2023
Technical depth, technical breadth, the fundamentals of software architecture, and a model for drawing diagrams that actually make sense.
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July 30, 2023
Abstractions, design patterns, DRY, WET, and boring architecture.
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July 16, 2023
Complexity, principles for scaling frontend applications, the risks of micro frontends, and more.
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