A full-stack bug tracker is a small enough project to finish and a big enough one to expose every architectural decision you make — which is exactly why the interesting parts weren't the framework choices.
Clean Architecture on the backend, a hard line between server and client state on the frontend, and the small choices that mattered more than either. The full article covers vertical slices inside a four-project Clean Architecture split, one response envelope for every endpoint, why Zustand replaced Redux, what Zod actually solves, and where TypeScript earns its keep.
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