https://aaronch.dev/blog Frontend engineering notes: Angular, design systems and web performance. en https://aaronch.dev/blog/firebase-angular-guide/ https://aaronch.dev/blog/firebase-angular-guide/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What Firebase is, the five services you actually need (Auth, Firestore, Storage, Functions, Hosting), how to wire each into Angular, and when to pick Supabase instead. https://aaronch.dev/blog/frontend-to-ai-engineer/ https://aaronch.dev/blog/frontend-to-ai-engineer/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adapting is not optional. A field guide for frontend engineers moving to the AI-capable profile companies hire for: what to learn, what to build, and how to prove it. https://aaronch.dev/blog/design-system-startup-guide/ https://aaronch.dev/blog/design-system-startup-guide/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a design system really is, what you actually need, and a step-by-step recipe to build one — framework-agnostic, with the same component shown in React and Angular. https://aaronch.dev/blog/design-tokens-layers/ https://aaronch.dev/blog/design-tokens-layers/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a token really is, why they’re organized in 3 layers (primitive, semantic, component), and how I built each in this site’s CSS — with dark mode as a simple semantic swap. https://aaronch.dev/blog/lighthouse-100-angular-portfolio/ https://aaronch.dev/blog/lighthouse-100-angular-portfolio/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The exact architecture behind a perfect Lighthouse score: zoneless Angular, SSG prerendering, incremental hydration and a build-time image pipeline.