Hijrah Frontend (1): When a Backend Engineer Is Told to Touch the Frontend

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0700

The Hijrah Backend series has graduated. The GPS backend now stands on Go, 14 domain modules are in order, and the endpoint that used to eat 15 seconds has recovered.

Now it’s the neighboring building’s turn.

I am a backend engineer. My world: queries, indexes, binary packet parsers, and database welfare. The frontend is a country I visit occasionally, on a tourist visa. This episode is about the day that tourist visa got revoked and replaced with a resident ID hehe~

Hijrah Frontend (2): The Thin Port and the Inheritance That Boarded

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0700

The move from episode one is finished, and handover day has arrived. The manifest is short and boring, exactly like the best moving manifests: seventy-six boxes in, seventy-six boxes out. Zero pages left behind.

That’s not luck. That’s a decision. And this episode is about that decision: what we deliberately carried over, what turned out to board without an invitation, and one big plan that chose not to happen hehe~

Why Zero Pages Were Left Behind #

If you’ve ever moved houses, you know the most liberating moment: deciding “just throw this one away”. A frontend migration has the same moment with a bigger temptation, because discarding pages feels like tidying up the product at the same time.

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Hijrah Frontend (1): When a Backend Engineer Is Told to Touch the Frontend

Hijrah Frontend (2): The Thin Port and the Inheritance That Boarded

Why Zero Pages Were Left Behind #