What a reliable React migration actually looks like
Notes from an incremental migration: where shared components helped, where ceremony got in the way, and how to modernize a business-critical frontend without pretending greenfield rules apply.
Eamon Boyle Writing
Migration work, deterministic pipelines, matching systems, and the practical engineering choices that keep production software lucid under pressure.
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