https://plakar.io/posts/plakar-ui-series/ Recent content in The Plakar Frontend, Explained on Plakar | The Open Standard for Backup and Restore Hugo -- gohugo.io en © 2026 PlakarKorp Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:32:59 +0200 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-series-intro/ Mon, 25 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-series-intro/ I’m a backend developer who ended up building a frontend. This series explains the Plakar UI stack — what’s in it, why it’s structured the way it is, and why it’s not as scary as the node_modules folder suggests. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-pnpm-turborepo/ Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-pnpm-turborepo/ How and why we set up the Plakar UI as a monorepo using pnpm for strict dependency management and Turborepo for fast, cached task orchestration. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-react/ Mon, 25 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-react/ Why React exists and what problems it actually solves — explained to backend developers who know Go and are curious about how modern frontend UIs are built. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-typescript/ Mon, 25 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-typescript/ Two TypeScript features that will surprise Go developers: incremental refactoring without blocking the compiler, and discriminated unions with automatic type narrowing. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-zod/ Mon, 25 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-zod/ TypeScript types only protect your own code — Zod validates data at runtime API boundaries, turning silent undefined bugs into immediate, descriptive parse errors. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-tanstack-query/ Mon, 25 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-tanstack-query/ How TanStack Query handles all HTTP requests in Plakar UI — automatic caching, deduplication, background refetching, and cache invalidation after mutations. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-tanstack-form/ Mon, 25 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-tanstack-form/ How TanStack Form and the AppField pattern turn forms from a copy-paste nightmare into composable, declarative building blocks with type-safe validation. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-react-aria-components/ Mon, 25 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-react-aria-components/ Why we use React Aria Components as the foundation for our UI library — and why building accessible, keyboard-navigable widgets from scratch is much harder than it looks. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-tanstack-table/ Mon, 25 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-tanstack-table/ How TanStack Table gives us a headless, fully type-safe data grid — with sorting, filtering, and pagination — without dictating how anything looks. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-tanstack-router/ Mon, 25 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-tanstack-router/ How TanStack Router brings compile-time safety to client-side routing — broken links, missing params, and wrong search params are all caught before the code ships. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-storybook/ Mon, 25 May 2026 03:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-storybook/ How we use Storybook to develop, document, and visually test our UI component library in isolation, independent of application logic. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-testing-strategy/ Mon, 25 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-testing-strategy/ How we test the Plakar UI — unit tests for components, integration tests for user flows, and why we draw the line where we do. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-build-process/ Mon, 25 May 2026 01:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-build-process/ How we bundle and ship the Plakar UI — Vite, code splitting, environment configs, and what happens between writing code and serving it to users. https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-series-conclusion/ Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://plakar.io/posts/2026-05-25/plakar-ui-series-conclusion/ Wrapping up the series — what we covered, the common thread running through every tool choice, and what comes next.