Grant Pedersen · New York

Frontend Engineering

React, TypeScript, and browser-native processing

I built Minerva's Tools as a typed React application with reusable components for navigation, controls, tool content, structured metadata, and responsive layouts. Core utility processing happens client-side, so interactions remain immediate and user inputs do not need to be uploaded to an application server.

Architecture

A typed tool registry drives categories and discovery while shared shells handle repeated interface and content concerns. Individual tools own their focused transformation logic, keeping the codebase composable as the catalog grows.

Browser Capabilities

The product uses native browser APIs and focused libraries for image conversion, SVG optimization, hashing, formatting, code generation, and downloadable outputs. Processing close to the interface keeps the feedback loop fast.

Quality & Iteration

Vitest and Testing Library cover utility behavior, tool data, routes, metadata, and the accessibility shell. The shipped product gives me a real environment for finding edge cases, refining shared patterns, and improving the system release by release.

Focus areas

React
TypeScript
Vite
Testing