2026-07-265 min read
The in-chapter TOC needed live JavaScript. It still got a mockup first.
The captainrandom learning hub navigation retrofit ran five phases. Every one went through the UI gate — interactive approval mockup before production code. The most interesting case was P4: the subsystem's only client-side component, with a live IntersectionObserver scroll-spy in its mockup, still approved before a line of React was written.
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