🚀 Frontend Familiarization Map (2025)

Goal:

Maintain strategic familiarity with different frontend stacks and frameworks, with a focus on critical analysis and adaptability based on product and team needs.

📌 Technologies & Categories

🟢 Essentials (Master / Use in real projects)

1. Next.js (App Router)

• Master server components, Server Actions, metadata API
• Follow updates from Vercel and evolving features
• 🧠 Summary: Becoming the default "corporate-ready" framework. Highly opinionated, great DX, ideal for teams needing speed and structure.
• 💡 Use cases: Enterprise dashboards, e-commerce platforms, internal tools with fullstack needs.
• 🤔 Why it fits: Robust ecosystem, first-party integration with auth, middleware, edge, and strong support from Vercel. Ideal when you want fast delivery and team familiarity.
• ⚖️ Compared to: Remix and TanStack Start provide more flexibility or cleaner data logic, but often require more boilerplate or setup for production-scale features that Next offers out-of-the-box.
• 🔗 Docs: https://nextjs.org/docs
• 🔗 Deep Dive: https://youtu.be/UaeX8DrQJwY

2. TanStack Start

• Explore declarative routing, TanStack Query, Forms
• Get used to its minimalistic, Vite-based structure
• 🧠 Summary: DIY meta-framework with total control, no magic. Great for advanced teams that want to build from scratch with the best tools.
• 💡 Use cases: Highly customized frontend architectures, design systems, dev tools, admin panels with complex state/data requirements.