I Overengineered 3 Buttons to Explain Software Architecture

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so someone in the comments challenged me to build something super simple but treat it like a real production app, thinking about race conditions, security, deployment - the whole nine yards.
i figured why not try it with warp's new ai coding agents while i'm at it. ended up spending way more time on a 3-button counter than any reasonable person should.
you'll learn a lot about atomic operations, optimistic updates, rate limiting, and how to structure code that doesn't fall apart when real users touch it. plus warp's agent multithreading is actually pretty sick - had one agent building security while another wrote test scripts.
anyway, here's what building with a production mindset actually looks like, even when you're just incrementing a number. i'm not saying this is a production-ready app lol but just examples of the things that go into a production-ready app.

timestamps:
00:00 the challenge
01:45 atomic operations & race conditions
06:30 security & rate limiting
09:00 making it pretty (production principles)
11:15 deployment & final thoughts

code: https://github.com/forrestknight/digi...
site: https://digit-duel.vercel.app/ (it'll probably break - i haven't paid for convex and am at the limit lol)
try warp: https://go.warp.dev/forrestknight

probably gonna do a full warp review next if people are interested 🤷‍♂️

Titles - idk which to pick:
I Built a Simple App to Explain Complex Architecture
Someone challenged me to build a simple app (the complex way)
Coding Architecture with Warp
He said I Couldn't Make a Real Production App.. So I Made One! (obviously stolen from dani lol)
Making a heavily over engineered app... because someone said to.
I overengineered 3 buttons to explain software architecture

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