OOP as State Management: What Svelte 5 Runes Made Obvious
How Svelte 5 runes turn plain TypeScript classes into reactive stores, replacing Redux ceremony with object-oriented simplicity.
Hej, I’m Igor Tosic.
I build the kind of web application most frontend developers never touch: interactive canvas, annotation and map interfaces over very large datasets.
Focused on creating intuitive and performant web experiences. Bridging the gap between design and development.
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About me
I work on a national-scale map application for public transport analysis, where we moved from ArcGIS to OpenLayers. Before that, through Capgemini, I developed STID Annotation for Equinor, the application engineers use to annotate technical documentation across Equinor installations.
Before Norway, I founded and ran a video production and web agency in Serbia for eight years. Today I work across the stack, from Norway, and write here about architecture and state management.