Alan grabbed a whiteboard marker.
Alan pointed to a single file: services/websocket.ts .
"Because the architecture is boring," Alan said. "Boring is stable. Stable ships." alan alickovic react application architecture for production
"When React re-renders, these services don't care. They are immutable islands of truth."
The team had been using Context for everything. One giant AppProvider that held user data, UI theme, WebSocket messages, and a forgotten boolean for whether the footer animation had played. Alan grabbed a whiteboard marker
He picked up the ugliest component in the codebase: ProductCard.tsx . It did seven things.
That night, Alan disabled his pager alerts. He went to bed at 10:00 PM. He dreamed of pure functions and predictable state transitions. "Boring is stable
Alan pointed to the whiteboard. The three circles were still there, now annotated with team notes.