One pattern kept repeating itself while working on large React applications: frontend ecosystems slowly become fragmented. At first, everything feels manageable. You install: one package for components another for hooks another for utilities another for icons another for design tokens/themes Individually, these libraries are often excellent. But as applications and teams scale, the operational cost quietly compounds. Over time I started noticing recurring problems: inconsistent APIs across packages duplicated abstractions bundle size growth conflicting dependency upgrades fragmented documentation different engineering philosophies fighting each other increasing cognitive overhead for teams The bigger the frontend codebase became, the more time teams spent stitching ecosystems together instead of building actual product experiences. The hidden frontend tax What makes this problem interesting is that the pain usually appears gradually. A project starts simple.…