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Welcome to the RRG Tech Blog

A new home for our thinking on web development, design, and building digital products that last. Here is what to expect.

Rohan GautamMay 20, 20262 min read

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Engineering

Was React Native's New Architecture worth the rewrite?

We migrated a production app to React Native's New Architecture. Here's what the bridge rewrite actually bought us, and where it wasn't worth the pain.

Jun 5, 20264 min read

Engineering

I cut our LCP in half by deleting code, not adding it

Our biggest performance win came from deleting a render-blocking script and a bloated hero, not from clever optimization. Here's what I removed and why.

Jun 4, 20265 min read

Engineering

The End of CRUD Apps: What to Build Instead

CRUD isn't dead, but shipping apps as thin wrappers over database tables is a losing game. Here's what I build instead, and where plain CRUD still wins.

Jun 3, 20265 min read

Engineering

Why I stopped reaching for useEffect in React

Most useEffect calls I wrote early on were bugs waiting to happen. Here's how I learned to tell the few I really need from the many I don't.

Jun 3, 20265 min read

Engineering

Building with the Next.js App Router

Server components, streaming, and metadata done right. A pragmatic tour of the patterns we reach for on every App Router project.

May 10, 20262 min read

Design

Designing Accessible Interfaces from the Start

Accessibility is not a feature you add at the end. Here is how we bake it into design and code so it costs almost nothing.

Apr 28, 20262 min read