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JavaScript & TypeScript: A Modern Stack Hub
A hub for teams building production systems in JavaScript and TypeScript. We cover the current mainstream stack — React and Next.js on the web, React Native on mobile, Node.js on the server — with an opinionated view on when to reach for server components, edge runtimes, monorepos, and when a simpler setup is a better engineering decision.
Web Development with React, Next.js, and TypeScript
Modern web development in JavaScript is hard to separate from TypeScript and the component ecosystem built around React. For most new products we default to React with Next.js and the App Router, TypeScript from day one, a strict linter, and an opinionated formatter — the boring choices that cost nothing and save months later. Server components, streaming, and edge runtimes genuinely change the shape of what a React app can do, but they also introduce new failure modes around caching and data fetching; we write about both sides. For teams with different constraints, Vue and the broader ecosystem still have a legitimate place, and we cover the trade-offs honestly rather than pretending every team should ship the same stack.
JavaScript & TypeScript Articles
JavaScript on the server stopped being a novelty long ago. In this section we cover Node.js as a production runtime — API design with REST, GraphQL, and tRPC; architecture choices around monoliths, modular monoliths, and microservices; background jobs; streaming and SSE; observability; and the operational discipline that separates a Node service that survives a traffic spike from one that melts at 2am. We also write about the alternative runtimes (Bun, Deno) and when they are worth the switching cost, as well as practical guidance on deployment targets — containers, serverless, and edge — without pretending any one of them is universally right.
Cross-Platform Mobile with React Native
Mobile development with React Native is our default for teams that want a single engineering organization shipping to iOS and Android without maintaining two native codebases. The trade-offs are real: native modules, App Store review cycles, and performance-sensitive screens still require thought, and there are products where fully native or a more recent entrant like Flutter is the better call — we cover that comparison honestly. Where React Native shines is in product surface area that changes quickly: CRUD-heavy apps, content and community products, internal tools, and MVPs that need to be in users' hands in weeks rather than quarters, all sharing state and business logic with the web client.
The cost of a JavaScript stack is not the framework you pick — it is the long tail of decisions you make after. TypeScript or not. Server components or classic SSR. REST or tRPC. Monorepo or separate repos. Native, React Native, or web-only. We have watched teams burn a year optimizing the wrong layer because nobody wrote down the defaults. That is why, at Mobile Reality, we are explicit about our defaults: TypeScript, Next.js for most web, React Native for cross-platform mobile, and a short, boring list of tooling choices we only override when the product genuinely demands it.
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