Articles by Sadra Nosrati

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Practical notes on front-end development, WordPress, and engineering decisions from real project work.

Migrating from CRA to Vite: When It’s Worth It and How I Avoid a Rewrite

“Vite is faster” is not enough. I audit env variables, aliases, assets, tests, production builds, and deployment assumptions before deciding whether a CRA migration is worth the risk.

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WordPressAug 20268 min read

Building Editable WordPress Sites Without Turning Elementor Into Technical Debt

How I draw the boundary between Elementor, custom code, plugins, and WooCommerce so editors keep control without making the implementation fragile.

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Front-EndAug 20268 min read

Upgrading to Tailwind CSS v4 Without Regressing the UI

I treat Tailwind v4 as an infrastructure migration, not a redesign: establish a visual baseline, map tokens, update the build, then verify responsive, RTL, and interaction states.

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EngineeringAug 20248 min read

Before Zustand: Deciding Where React State Actually Belongs

Before adding a store, I classify state by ownership, lifetime, and consumers: local UI, URL, server-owned data, or genuinely shared client state.

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