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A concrete roadmap for senior frontend engineers making the transition from React developer to frontend architect: skills, practice tasks, portfolio artifacts, interview preparation, and a 30/60/90 day plan.
Knowing React is valuable. But in senior frontend roles, it is no longer enough to stand out. The differentiator has moved from components to systems, from features to architecture, from code output to engineering judgment.
A technical deep-dive into the five architecture dimensions senior frontend engineers must master: state architecture, rendering strategy, performance budgets, frontend scalability, and design systems.
Design frontend platforms with governed design systems, tokens, component APIs, accessibility, versioning, migration, and adoption metrics.
Design real-time frontend systems with WebSockets, SSE, event ordering, idempotency, retries, optimistic UI, and resilient streaming UX.
Design dynamic UI systems with schemas, field registries, validation orchestration, role visibility, workflow screens, and notifications.
Design resilient frontend systems with failure taxonomy, error boundaries, retry UX, degraded states, offline handling, telemetry, and incident response.
Design frontend performance with budgets, rendering strategy, hydration control, Core Web Vitals, RUM, assets, and script governance.
Design frontend security with auth flows, token storage boundaries, RBAC, route guards, CSP, browser risks, third-party scripts, and secure defaults.
Design frontend state architecture by classifying local, server, URL, global, form, workflow, derived, and stale state ownership.
Design high-density frontend data views with virtualization, pagination, cache discipline, query delegation, accessibility, and memory safety.
Prepare for senior frontend system design interviews with requirement framing, architecture flow, trade-offs, risk handling, and evaluation rubrics.
A practical guide to senior frontend system design, moving from component thinking to constraints, scale, trade-offs, failure modes, and UX.