Topic: React

You bump a version, run install, and the project catches fire. That’s a React upgrade.

Half the bugs you find were already there — the rest is types, tests, and Claude Code keeping the investigation from eating you alive.

Ever opened a repo, spotted an ancient dependency version, and felt your motivation quietly exit the building? That was me, staring at our client still running on TanStack Query v3.

Here’s the (mostly human) story of how I dragged it to v5 and what it taught me about keeping a codebase clean.