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Modern frontend applications look simple on the surface, but behind every smooth user experience is a system of data flows, rendering strategies, caching layers, pagination models, and real-time updates. This book breaks down those complexities and helps you understand how to design frontends that scale — not just in performance, but in clarity, maintainability, and user experience.

Frontend System Design Essentials introduces a structured approach for thinking about complex UI architecture through the CCDAO framework. You’ll learn how to analyse product requirements, model data effectively, design APIs that support real-world access patterns, and apply techniques like virtualization, optimistic updates, pagination, caching, and performance optimization.

Rather than presenting abstract theories, the book uses concrete case studies — typeahead search, feed lists, modals, and more — to show how system design decisions play out in practice. Each chapter builds on the last, helping you form a mental model you can use in interviews or in your day-to-day work as a senior engineer.

If you want to grow beyond “just building UI” and start designing frontends that hold up under real-world pressure, this book gives you the tools, patterns, and clarity to do it well.

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