Stories From the Trenches

This comprehensive guide explores the intricacies of building native iOS components in React Native, covering the legacy architecture. Readers will learn to identify scenarios requiring native integration, such as accessing platform-specific APIs, optimizing performance-critical operations, and leveraging existing native libraries. The series offers a deep dive into the fundamental differences between the old asynchronous bridge and the new JSI-powered architecture, providing practical, step-by-step instructions for setting up and implementing native modules and UI components. Key concepts like Objective-C bridging, Swift implementation, and essential macros (RCT_EXPORT_MODULE, RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY) are explained in detail, alongside advanced communication patterns including callbacks, promises, and event emitters.

Surya Digital’s stance on usage of AI by junior software engineers.

This is more opinionated view of how sketching and writing things down has reduced my anxiety, and made me work in a structured way as a product designer.

Building scalable theming in React involves treating themes as centralized configuration objects rather than scattered CSS hacks. This post guides you through designing flexible, maintainable, and portable theme systems using React Context, inline styles, and sound architecture. It covers common pitfalls, project scaling, and UI library integration.

Most developers assume they know what READ COMMITTED, REPEATABLE READ, and SERIALIZABLE really mean, but PostgreSQL’s MVCC engine has a few surprises in store. This blog unpacks the real behavior behind each isolation level, exposes the anomalies they allow (and why), and shows how PostgreSQL bends the classic SQL-92 model in clever, performance-conscious ways. If you care about data consistency, concurrent transactions, or why SERIALIZABLE isn’t just a buzzword, this is the deep dive you didn’t know you needed.