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Part one left us with a small, server-rendered React frontend. Part two is the full-stack half of the bet: end-to-end types with no tRPC and no TanStack, a server that stays the single source of truth, and — because the stack is so light — a web app you install on a phone and can't tell from native.
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Next.js became the default — and then the tax. React 19's Server Components are now a primitive you can assemble yourself. We built a server-rendered React stack with five dependencies, end-to-end types with no tRPC, and an architecture that scales by removing tiers instead of adding them.
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The raw, unfiltered story of one team's descent into React state management hell, their desperate search for salvation, and the revolutionary solution they built that every frontend developer secretly craves.
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From React state management despair to discovering frameworks that actually care about developers. Why the most popular framework isn't the best one, and how to reclaim your coding dignity.
