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Opinionated articles on how HyperCode builds mobile and web products: the stacks we default to, the practices we insist on, and the reasoning behind both.
Mobile · Strategy
Flutter, React Native, or Native? How We Actually Choose
We ship apps with all four stacks — Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, and React Native — so we have no framework to defend. This is the decision process we walk through with every client, including the questions that matter more than the technology.
Read the articleFlutter · State Management
Why We Use Riverpod for State Management in Flutter Apps
Every Flutter project has to answer the state management question. After shipping production apps with several approaches, Riverpod became our default — here's the reasoning, including where it isn't the right answer.
Read the articleWeb · Architecture
Why Firebase + Next.js + Vercel Is Our Default Stack for Admin Apps
Almost every mobile product we build eventually needs a back-office: an admin dashboard where the client manages users, content, and data. For those, we reach for the same stack every time — and the reasoning is mostly about what we don't have to build.
Read the articleQuality · Testing
Unit Tests Pay for Themselves — and UI Tests Belong on Real Devices
Testing is routinely the first thing cut from a mobile budget, because its value is invisible until the day it isn't. Here's how we think about the testing pyramid in practice — from unit tests on business logic to Appium-automated UI tests running on a device farm.
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