Concrete gotchas from building the UI of a status-driven workflow tool on Next.js 16 and React 19: intercepting + parallel routes for modals, the React Hook Form + Zod typing trap with default values, gating a stepper by status and role, and pinning a gantt with the one legitimate inline-style exception.
My hobby recipe app got paused after 90 days of inactivity and could no longer be restored from the dashboard. Here is how I rescued the data from a backup and rebuilt the stack on platforms that do not freeze - swapping Supabase for Neon + Drizzle, Auth.js, and Vercel Blob.
Upgrading Swiper from v8 to v11 seems harmless until your carousels start thrashing the page. A deep dive into why loop mode broke, what loopAddBlankSlides actually does (nothing useful), and how to fix it with a wrapper component.
Why I replaced prism-react-renderer with shiki for code highlighting in my Next.js blog, and how the migration went.
Migrating MSW from v1 to v2 sounds straightforward until your test suite explodes. A walkthrough of the polyfills, fetch replacements, and config changes needed to make Jest work with MSW v2.
