Software Engineering Blog, page 13
Notes on software engineering from the Atyantik practice.
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Tirth Bodawala
Progressive Web App development for Northern Ireland
How we build Progressive Web Apps that blend web accessibility with app-like performance, for businesses across Northern Ireland and beyond.
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Ajay Patel
Laravel for SaaS: why it works well for your product, and the defaults that decide it
Laravel for SaaS, mapped: the package for tenancy, billing, plan access, queues and API tokens, the default in each that bites, and the support clock.
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Ajay Patel
Tenancy for Laravel review: what held, what broke, and our verdict against building it yourself
A Tenancy for Laravel review from a real install on Laravel 12: what stayed isolated, the cache error the defaults cause, and when to build it yourself.
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Tirth Bodawala
Git and GitFlow branching workflow for teams
A decision engine plus convention spec for git branching. Route your team to GitFlow, GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow, or trunk-based from your context, then standardize with a branch-naming regex, a Conventional Commits table, and the branch-protection, CODEOWNERS, and commitlint config that enforce it.
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Ajay Patel
Rector PHP migrations, one reviewed pull request at a time
Rector PHP migrations explained: pick a PHP 8.x target from php.net's dates, write rector.php, raise one level per pull request and hold it in CI.
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Tirth Bodawala
Modern ECMAScript for 2026: the JavaScript features that shipped, and which to adopt
What actually shipped in JavaScript for 2026: the seven features that landed in the ES2026 edition, the ES2024/ES2025 items that are already baseline, and the finished-but-ES2027 proposals (Temporal, the using keyword) people mislabel as 2026. With an adopt / polyfill / wait verdict bound to your lowest-supported runtime via MDN Baseline and concrete Node, Deno, and Bun versions.
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Ajay Patel
SOLID Principles in Laravel for Maintainable Applications
Learn SOLID principles in Laravel: Single Responsibility, Open-Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion with examples.
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Ayush Makwana
Million.js React optimization: how block diffing works, when it helps, and where the project stands in 2026
Million.js React explained: how block diffing makes each render cheaper, a four-question fit test, the React Compiler split, setup code and its 2026 status.
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Tirth Bodawala
How to build a real Progressive Web App with React
A build-it-yourself guide to shipping an installable, offline-capable React PWA with Vite and vite-plugin-pwa, including a real Workbox caching config, the deploy-time update flow, and an honest note on when a PWA is the wrong call.
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