React

🧭 Purpose This document outlines the current state, design decisions, and action plan for my personal developer infrastructure. The motivation for self-hosting arises from the unpredictable costs of Vercel, Netlify, Supabase, and other cloud PaaS services — which can scale suddenly without providing long-term control. Since my current hardware (a high-spec ThinkStation P3 Tiny) outperforms most entry-level VPS offerings, this infrastructure gives me both cost savings and performance headroom. In the future, I may even scale this setup to offer private cloud services to selected clients. ...

This post is meant to be my development guide. 🌐 Main Site – faisaldarbar.com Stack: Hugo + Giscus + GitHub Pages Static content: blog, about, contact SEO-optimized and fast Newsletter via ConvertKit Comments via Giscus Hosted on GitHub Pages ✅ Done and live 🛍️ Storefront – store.faisaldarbar.com Stack: React + TailwindCSS + Vite Static SPA for digital/physical products Product catalog and detail pages Razorpay Buy Now integration (guest checkout) Inventory indicators (in stock, low stock, out of stock) Tokenized download links for digital products Hosted via GitHub Pages or Netlify (free tier with caution) 🔧 Backend API – api.faisaldarbar.com Stack: Node.js + Express + Prisma + PostgreSQL (self-hosted) ...