Architecture · 2015–2022 · Cloud Scale
Redux global state
One store to rule the SPA — boilerplate ceremonies for every keystroke until hooks and server state libraries cooled the religion.
How Redux global state mutated
Redux mutated frontend architecture by making state transitions explicit and debuggable. It failed as a default for every form field when React Query, Zustand, and server components ate the use cases. The fad was wiring; the stuck residue is predictable state for complex clients.
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Framework · 2013–now
React
Components and unidirectional data. Won the front-end by being good enough and having a gravitational ecosystem.
Practice · 2014–2023
SPA for Every Page
Client-side apps as the only architecture. Great for apps; absurd for brochures.
$ Marketing sites and docs portals shipped multi-megabyte JS bundles for content that wanted HTML. SEO and performance teams spent years unwinding "modern" defaults.
Framework · 2010–2021
AngularJS (1.x)
Two-way binding magic that became a migration tax. Angular 2+ was a rewrite; the 1.x apps lingered for years.
Language · 2012–now
TypeScript
JS with a typechecker that conquered the ecosystem — then a native Go compiler that made `tsc` an order of magnitude faster. The rare fad that became the floor.