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There are broadly only 4 types of apps based on the data (or content) they generate. Computation apps, Communication apps, Digital Content apps and Physical Business apps. This article explore these types in detail along with their data persistence needs.
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Newsletter apps are service which publicises user generated content to other users e.g. social media apps. And colocation of all users' data is highly required in such case. Yet the same architecture is imposed on personal and private content apps as well. This article explore why and how did that happen.
Read articleFirst thing any indie developer tries to build is productivity and utility apps. Like a journaling or a health and activity tracker app. Such apps are a type of personal content app. But there's no open-source mechanism out there which utilises user's personal cloud storage as backend for such apps.
Read articleAll the mainstream web dev libraries or frameworks out there have grown mature and have accumulated much complexity over time. One crucial side-effect of that is that the engineers working with these frameworks are not completely confident to say that they have a complete command over that framework.
Read articleReact JS simply started with flux architecture where the UI is nothing but a function of state, UI = f(state). But the HTML's compositional nature along with flux pattern resulted in an architecture where component should re-render when the internal or external state changes. This article explores why that architecture made React complex and over-engineered over time.
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