#devjournal#watercooler
If Diwali Had a Git Commit History, Mine Would Be Full of Last-Minute Changes
Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, is approaching, and my home is slowly turning into a little...
Shubhra Pokhariya4 min read
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Shubhra Pokhariya
Full-stack developer focused on crafting clean, fast, and scalable web products. I love working with Next.js, React, and Tailwind to build modern, user-friendly experiences.
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Shubhra Pokhariya4 min read
#node#postgres#mysql#database
Does AbortSignal Cancel a Node.js Database Query? 4 Drivers Tested
I let 12 Node.js clients walk away from their database queries on a 4-connection pool. The abandoned...
Shubhra Pokhariya19 min read
#prisma#postgres#typescript#backend
Hono on Prisma Postgres and Compute, What Worked and What Broke
TL;DR I deployed a Hono API on Prisma Postgres and Prisma Compute with three commands, auth login,...
Shubhra Pokhariya11 min read
#watercooler#discuss#gardening#devlive
The Garden I Wait for Every Winter
October always makes me look at my garden a little differently. The monsoon is beginning to fade,...
Shubhra Pokhariya5 min read
#ai#security#nextjs#webdev
Your Auth Check Passed. The Agent Still Did Something Nobody Asked For
Authentication answers who. Authorization answers what they're allowed to do. Neither one answers...
Shubhra Pokhariya11 min read
#devchallenge#hf26challenge#gemma#showdev
I Built an AI Gardening App That Tells Me to Put the Laptop Down
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Coding is my...
Shubhra Pokhariya9 min read
#node#javascript#postgres#backend
Aborting a Fetch Doesn't Stop Your Node.js Server. Here's What Does.
I fired 20 requests at a Node.js handler and made every client walk away after 100 ms. The handler...
Shubhra Pokhariya8 min read
#react#javascript#webdev#a11y
React 19 useFormStatus Returning False? I Built a SubmitButton That Fixes It
A few weeks back I wrote about the useFormStatus bug that got me the hardest, the one where pending...
Shubhra Pokhariya5 min read
#webdev#programming#react#javascript
React 19's useTransition Looked Simple. Then I Found a Second Bug Hiding Inside the First One
Every hook in this series so far has been a passenger. useActionState rides inside a Transition and...
Shubhra Pokhariya11 min read
#react#nextjs#webdev#refactoring
The Code I Couldn't Leave Alone
The bug report was simple enough. On the reports dashboard, if you changed the date range while a...
Shubhra Pokhariya6 min read
#javascript#webdev#debugging#testing
I Throttled My App to Slow 3G. Here's What My Tests Never Caught
I wasn't looking for a performance problem. I wanted to see what happened when the network got slow...
Shubhra Pokhariya7 min read
#webdev#javascript#react#nextjs
I Tested generateStaticParams in Next.js Cache Components. My Layout Broke Twice
The last post here got picked apart in the comments in the best possible way. @nazar-boyko asked the...
Shubhra Pokhariya5 min read
#react#javascript#webdev#programming
React 19 Actions: I Explained 3 Hooks Without Ever Explaining What an Action Is
Three parts into this series, and if you'd asked me to define the word sitting underneath every...
Shubhra Pokhariya10 min read
#nextjs#webdev#javascript#react
I Turned On Cache Components in Next.js 16.3. It Refused to Build My Simplest Page.
I didn't want to write another "what's new in Next.js 16.3" post. Enough of those exist. I wanted to...
Shubhra Pokhariya4 min read
#react#javascript#webdev#programming
React 19's useFormStatus Fixed My Prop Drilling. Then It Sat There Returning False
Part 1 was about waiting well. Part 2 was about not waiting at all. This one is about a value I...
Shubhra Pokhariya7 min read
#frontendchallenge#devchallenge#css
I Know the Recipe. I Miss the Winter Kitchen.
This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art. ...
Shubhra Pokhariya4 min read
#react#javascript#webdev#programming
React 19's useOptimistic Fixed My Instant UI. Then Combining It With useActionState Broke My Reset Button
Part 1 was about waiting well. This one is about not waiting at all, and about a couple of mistakes I...
Shubhra Pokhariya8 min read
#react#webdev#javascript#programming
React 19's useActionState Showed Me Why Disabling My Submit Button Was Never Enough
Every form I ever shipped before React 19 needed the same three pieces of state, and I wired them up...
Shubhra Pokhariya5 min read
#devchallenge#bugsmash#nextjs#react
The Optimistic UI Race Condition That Only Showed Up on the Fifth Click
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. I originally...
Shubhra Pokhariya5 min read
#debugging#programming#productivity#webdev
I Stopped Debugging at My Desk. Here's What Changed
I usually write here about Next.js, caching, and the bugs that steal your sleep. But this post is...
Shubhra Pokhariya6 min read
#nextjs#webdev#javascript#react
My Next.js 16 Optimistic UI Looked Perfect. Then Someone Clicked It Five Times Fast
Everything worked. I'd wired up useOptimistic on a task list, the checkbox flipped the instant you...
Shubhra Pokhariya5 min read
#nextjs#security#webdev#javascript
My Next.js 16 Auth Passed Every Test. Five Bugs That Only Showed Up When I Wired It Together.
The three-layer model works. Part 1 of this series is the invoice incident that proved it. Part 2 is...
Shubhra Pokhariya9 min read
#nextjs#security#webdev#javascript
Next.js 16 Server Actions Security: The Auth Check Most Developers Miss
I keep seeing it on code reviews. Proxy solid. Auth on every Server Component. Header direction...
Shubhra Pokhariya8 min read
#nextjs#javascript#webdev#security
I Got the proxy.ts Matcher Wrong for Three Projects Before I Understood Why
A few days ago I published a post about the three-layer auth model and the invoice incident that made...
Shubhra Pokhariya9 min read
#nextjs#webdev#javascript#security
I Thought My Next.js 16 Auth Was Solid. One Afternoon Proved Otherwise.
A few months ago I was doing a final pre-release review on a client project before handing it...
Shubhra Pokhariya7 min read
#nextjs#typescript#webdev#performance
After 7 Next.js 16 Caching Bugs, I Stopped Guessing and Built a System
There's a specific feeling you get after your third production caching incident. It's not panic....
Shubhra Pokhariya7 min read
#nextjs#typescript#webdev#javascript
Next.js 16 Broke My App in 4 Places and None of Them Threw an Error
The CI was green. Build passed. No TypeScript errors. No warnings. Everything looked clean. I...
Shubhra Pokhariya5 min read
#nextjs#typescript#webdev#performance
7 Next.js 16 Caching Bugs That Compile Fine and Break Silently in Production
I lost hours debugging a Next.js 16 caching issue that had no error, no warning, and only showed up...
Shubhra Pokhariya6 min read
#nextjs#webdev#javascript#performance
I built a free debugger because Next.js 16 'use cache' was completely invisible during development
I spent an afternoon debugging a component that kept re-fetching on every single request. It had...
Shubhra Pokhariya5 min read
#webdev#performance#nextjs#react
Lighthouse Said It Was Fast. My Users Kept Clicking the Same Button.
The bug wasn’t performance. It was silence. I ran into this while building a Next.js...
Shubhra Pokhariya3 min readAdvertisement