Adam Rackis

TanStack Start is one of the most exciting full-stack web development frameworks I’ve seen. I’ve written about it before. In essence, TanStack Start takes TanStack Router, a superb, strongly-typed client-side JavaScript framework, and adds server-side support. This serves two purposes: it gives you a place to execute server-side code, like database access; and it enables […]

CSS has counter variables (based on matching selectors) that you can output as formatted content or use in calculations.

Postgres creates an execution plan for how to retrieve the data you’re asking for in a query. The execution plan is based in part on statistics from your data and indexes it has available. Just the right index and a bit of query tuning can have a huge payoff in performance gains that your users will notice.

This Part 1 (of a 2-part series) is a practical, hands-on, applicable approach to database indexes. We’ll cover what B Trees are with a focus on deeply understanding, and internalizing how they store data on disk, and how your database uses them to speed up queries. This will set us up nicely for part 2, […]

Zustand is a minimal, but fun and effective state management library which just may improve your render performance.

The `satisfies` keyword allows you to assert that a certain value “satisfies” a given type, while preventing a wider type from being inferred.

TanStack Start enhances the TanStack Router by adding a server layer that improves performance through server-side rendering (SSR) and isomorphic loaders.

If it can go in a Docker, Fly can host it, and they’ll help you with that. Adam Rackis takes a look at the platform and shows off all the things he likes about it.

Drizzle ORM is a powerful object-relational mapper that combines SQL capabilities with a strongly typed API, enabling complex queries. Here we’ll look at using it’s ability to help with migrations, both code-first and database-first.

TanStack Query, or react-query, simplifies client-side data fetching with features like caching, automatic re-fetching, and error handling. It integrates smoothly with TanStack Router, allowing efficient prefetching and loading states using hooks like useSuspenseQuery.