Topic: React

You finish a feature and you’re holding a hook, a helper, a type, and a stylesheet. Where do they go? For a while our answer was “it depends,” which is another way of saying nobody knew.

This is how we settled on one folder per feature, and how we stopped it from drifting back into a mess.

A React app crashes. Sentry tells you it crashed. It does not tell you whose crash it is. You can usually work that out. It’s just a step nobody should have to do by hand.

This is the story of how we taught our error boundaries to tag the team that owns the screen, so the report answers that question on its own.

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.