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Dev.to · Alex Aslam
4d ago
Mobile Performance Monitoring with Sentry and Turbo: The Art of Seeing the Invisible
Twenty years of shipping software. Rails since 1.2. Native mobile since the iPhone 3G. And...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
4d ago
Push Notification Delivery Guarantees with Rails: A Spiral Through the Gray Hours
I still remember the 3 a.m. Slack message that made my stomach drop. “CEO just asked why 40% of our...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
4d ago
The Art of Background Sync in Turbo Native Apps: A Journey Through Offline-First Masterpieces
Let me tell you about the night I almost threw my laptop out a window. I was building a Turbo Native...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
5d ago
The Cartographer’s Confession: How PostGIS Turned Me from a SQL Hack into a Spatial Artist
Let me start with a confession. For years, I treated geospatial data like a messy closet—shove...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
5d ago
JavaScript Memory Leaks: How to Find, Fix, and Prevent Them
It was 3 AM on a Tuesday. Or maybe Wednesday—the days blur when you’re chasing a ghost. Our React...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
1w ago
The Event Loop, Microtasks, and Macrotasks: A Visual Explanation
I’ve spent the better part of a decade writing JavaScript that pretends to be synchronous. I’ve built...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
1w ago
JavaScript Engine Under the Hood: How V8 Compiles Your Code
Let’s be honest with ourselves for a second. We spend our days wrangling React hooks, tweaking...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
1mo ago
The Shape of Light: What’s New in Rails 8.1
A Senior Developer’s Journey Through the Latest Release There is a moment in the studio of a...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
8mo ago
Rails 8 + Bun: The New Default Stack?
"We ditched Node, Webpack, and 12,000 files from node_modules—here’s why you should...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
8mo ago
Bun vs. esbuild: The New Speed King
"Our CI pipeline went from 8 minutes to 17 seconds—here’s how we picked the right...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
8mo ago
Bun + Ruby: The New Full-Stack Duo
"We replaced Webpack, Node, and esbuild with one tool—and our stack got 10x simpler." For...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
Rails 8’s JavaScript: Goodbye Node, Hello Ruby?
"We deleted our node_modules folder—and nothing broke." For over a decade, Rails...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
Import Maps vs. Bun: The New JS Bundler War
"We cut our JS build time from 28 seconds to 0.8—here’s how you can too." For years,...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
Stimulus 3.0: Why We’re All-In
"We ditched React for 80% of our frontend—and productivity skyrocketed." When Stimulus 3.0...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
Reducing ActiveRecord Callback Chains by 80% Using POROs
"Our callback hell was so bad, even Rails creators would’ve cried." ActiveRecord callbacks...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
Hotwire + CableReady: Beyond Turbo Streams
"We replaced 80% of our React frontend with Rails—and users couldn’t tell the...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
React Native vs. Turbo Native: A 6-Month Postmortem
"We built the same app twice—here’s what exploded and what surprised us." Six months ago,...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
Turbo Native: How We Built a Mobile App Without React Native
"We launched our mobile app in 6 weeks—without writing a single line of Swift or...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
Turbo + Stimulus + Alpine: The Ultimate Frontend Stack?
"We ditched React—and our frontend got faster, simpler, and 10x more fun to build." For...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
ActiveRecord vs. Raw SQL: Performance at Scale
"Our database was on fire—all because we trusted ActiveRecord a little too...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
Alpine.js vs. Stimulus: A Pragmatic Comparison
"We replaced 8,000 lines of Stimulus with Alpine.js—then switched back. Here’s what we...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
When to Add Alpine.js to htmx
"htmx got us 90% there—then we hit a wall. Here’s how Alpine.js saved us without blowing up...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
The Dark Side of HTML-First Development
"We went all-in on htmx—and spent the next 6 months untangling the mess." HTML-first...
Dev.to · Alex Aslam
9mo ago
htmx vs. Hotwire: The Real-Time Showdown
"We rebuilt our Rails app’s frontend twice—once with Hotwire, once with htmx. The results...
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