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Modern web development practices, tools, and frameworks
31 posts
UnfoldCMS ships three production themes from one codebase via Tailwind v4 CSS variables. No build per theme, no duplicated components. Adding a fourth theme is one file. Architecture, migration cost, what doesn't theme well.
Vendor widget APIs limit what you can change in a CMS admin. A shadcn-based admin lets you fork any file and modify it like any code in your repo. Why fork-and-modify wins over 12 months, and where vendor widgets are still the right pick.
A year of building UnfoldCMS on shadcn/ui — 51 components, 210 admin pages, real customers. The architecture lessons that survived production: composition over configuration, owning the code, forms as primitives, tables as data.
Step-by-step tutorial: spin up a working blog CMS with Next.js front-end and shadcn/ui admin in 30 minutes. No Docker, no cloud account, just PHP + Node + MySQL. Real admin (51 shadcn components, 205 pages), real public API.
How to handle Jalali (Solar Hijri) and Hijri (Islamic) calendars in a Laravel app using MultiCarbon — an open-source package that extends Carbon directly, so every Carbon method keeps working.
I spent two months trying to build a CMS on top of FilamentPHP. Here's what I learned about the difference between admin-panel frameworks and CMSes.
The new /api/v1/* namespace ships in Core. Public reads, authenticated user endpoints, admin CRUD, outgoing signed webhooks. Built for Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit, and mobile apps.
Honest tradeoffs on JAMstack + headless CMS. Five scenarios where the combo pays off, four where you should stay on markdown, and the middle ground most sites should pick.
End-to-end tutorial — install UnfoldCMS, write your first post, attach a featured image, schedule it, and ship it live. Includes the headless JSON API tour.
A feature-by-feature comparison of Laravel CMS distributions vs WordPress in 2026: stack, security debt, plugin coverage, 5-year TCO, and what migration actually looks like.
Everyone selling headless CMS shows the same demo blog. Here are 5 real production architecture patterns — what is actually in the stack, what breaks, what to copy.
Every CMS sells customization. Few are honest about what that word means. Here's an honest comparison of themes, plugins, and code customization — and how to pick the right one for your team.