The tools I reach for.

Default for every new project. Strict mode, no implicit any.

ES6+ from the event loop up to module bundling.

Server components, suspense boundaries, and knowing when not to memo.

App and Pages Router, streaming, route handlers, caching semantics.

Shipped cross-platform client apps alongside their web counterparts.

Semantics and accessibility first — the markup is the API.

Grid, container queries, custom properties, cascade layers.

Primary store on the live betting platform — small, typed, no ceremony.

Normalised entities and typed slices on larger codebases.

Long-running side effects where a thunk stops being enough.

Server-state caching, background refetching and optimistic updates.

For genuinely global, low-frequency state — nothing more.

Service-layer clients with typed responses, never ad-hoc fetch calls.

Schema-first consumption with generated types.

Real-time odds and presence, with reconnection and backoff handled properly.

Main styling layer on the current platform, driven by design tokens.

Token-driven systems with CSS Modules for scoping — this site included.

Heavily themed installs, not defaults straight out of the box.

Fast path to an accessible admin surface with good defaults.

Dense, data-heavy interfaces where the table is the product.

Headless primitives when the design demands full visual control.

Runtime theming on projects that predate the zero-runtime shift.

Custom pipelines, autoprefixing and modern-syntax lowering.

Unit and component coverage where the logic actually lives.

End-to-end journeys for the flows that cost money when broken.

Flat config, typed rules, no warnings left in the baseline.

Formatting is not worth a review comment.

Budgets set up front, measured in CI, defended in review.

Uncontrolled by default, so large forms stay fast.

One schema shared by validation and the TypeScript types.

Legacy form estates.

Paired with Formik.

Composable charts that theme cleanly — used on this site.

Canvas-based dashboards.

Financial and time-series views with rich interaction.

When the visualisation is bespoke enough that a chart library fights you.

Layout animations, gestures and orchestrated sequences.

Migrated a live TV player to it: HLS, PiP, channel routing, maintenance modes.

Live vs. archive playback, latency tuning and Safari-specific behaviour.

3D globe and terrain rendering on a geospatial ERP product.

2D mapping with custom layers and heavy marker sets.

WebGL scenes — and knowing when a CSS transform is the better answer.

Data pipelines feeding map layers at scale.

Service layers, auth flows and BFF endpoints.

REST APIs with JWT sessions, rate limiting and helmet.

Typed data access with migrations that survive a team.

Schema design and the queries behind the dashboards.

Auth, Firestore and hosting for products that need to ship fast.

Session and JWT strategies, provider wiring, middleware guards.

Frontend work inside an existing .NET server-rendered estate.

Trunk-based flows, readable history, reviewable diffs.

Monorepo workspaces with strict resolution.

Reproducible local environments and build images.

Reverse proxying, caching headers and TLS termination.

Process management and zero-downtime reloads on VPS deploys.

Preview deployments, edge config, analytics.

Static hosting with build plugins and redirects.

Droplets, DNS and monitoring for self-hosted client work.

E-commerce event schemas, owned end to end on a revenue surface.