Today marks an important milestone in Tanqory's evolution: we're launching Tanqory News, a dedicated editorial platform designed to be the authoritative source for all our product updates, research breakthroughs, company announcements, and industry perspectives. This isn't just another corporate blog—it's a thoughtfully crafted publishing platform built with the same attention to performance, accessibility, and user experience that defines all our products.
The Story Behind Tanqory News
Since Tanqory has grown from a small startup to a platform serving thousands of users worldwide, we've faced a challenge familiar to many fast-growing companies: how do we communicate effectively with our diverse community of users, developers, partners, and industry watchers?
The Communication Challenge
Previously, our updates were scattered across multiple channels—Twitter threads, Medium posts, email newsletters, and documentation updates. This fragmented approach created several problems:
- Discoverability: Important announcements were hard to find after initial publication
- Consistency: Different platforms had different formatting and presentation styles
- Performance: Third-party platforms often delivered suboptimal user experiences
- Control: We couldn't customize the reading experience to match our brand
- Analytics: Understanding what resonated with our audience was difficult
We realized we needed a centralized, purpose-built platform that could serve as the single source of truth for all Tanqory communications.
Our Design Principles
When designing Tanqory News, we established clear principles that would guide every decision:
1. Performance First In 2025, users expect instant page loads. We committed to achieving Core Web Vitals scores in the 95th percentile, with Largest Contentful Paint under 1.2 seconds and First Input Delay under 100ms.
2. Accessibility for All Every article must be fully accessible to users with disabilities, with WCAG 2.1 Level AAA compliance as our baseline standard.
3. Beautiful Typography Reading should be a pleasure. We've optimized typography for readability across all devices, with careful attention to line length, spacing, and contrast.
4. Mobile-First Design With over 60% of web traffic coming from mobile devices, we designed for small screens first and progressively enhanced for larger displays.
5. Developer-Friendly Our team loves working with modern tools. The platform needed to provide an excellent developer experience to ensure we could publish quickly and iterate rapidly.
Technical Architecture Deep Dive
We built Tanqory News using cutting-edge web technologies, each chosen deliberately for specific advantages:
Next.js 15: The Foundation
Next.js 15 remains the gold standard for building high-performance, scalable, and SEO-friendly React applications in 2025. Our implementation leverages several key features:
App Router Architecture We've fully embraced the App Router introduced in Next.js 13 and matured in v15. This gives us:
- File-system based routing with intuitive organization
- React Server Components for optimal performance
- Streaming and Suspense for progressive rendering
- Built-in loading and error states
Server-Side Rendering (SSR) Every page is server-rendered, ensuring instant First Contentful Paint and perfect SEO. Users see fully-rendered content immediately, with JavaScript enhancing the experience progressively.
Static Generation for Articles Published articles are statically generated at build time, delivering CDN-edge performance with cache-control headers optimized for long-term caching.
Incremental Static Regeneration When we update an article, ISR automatically rebuilds just that page within seconds, without requiring a full site rebuild.
MDX: Content Meets Code
MDX powers our content authoring experience, combining the simplicity of Markdown with the flexibility of React components.
Why MDX?
Traditional Markdown is great for simple content, but limiting for rich editorial experiences. MDX solves this by allowing us to:
- Embed interactive React components directly in articles
- Create reusable content blocks for consistency
- Import and use TypeScript for type-safe content
- Leverage the entire React ecosystem within our content
Our MDX Setup
We use @next/mdx with custom plugins for:
- Syntax highlighting: Prism.js with custom themes matching our brand
- Reading time calculation: Automatic estimation based on word count
- Table of contents generation: Auto-generated from article headings
- Image optimization: Automatic conversion to WebP with responsive sizing
- Link enhancement: External links open in new tabs with rel attributes
Frontmatter Management
Every article includes structured frontmatter metadata:
title: Article title
slug: url-friendly-slug
date: Publication date
updated: Last update timestamp
author: Author name
authorSlug: Author profile slug
topic: Primary category
tags: Array of tags
excerpt: SEO meta description
heroImage: Featured image path
heroAlt: Image alt text for accessibility
readingTime: Estimated minutes to read
draft: Publication status
canonicalUrl: Canonical URL for SEO
This metadata drives our archive pages, topic filters, author profiles, and SEO optimization.
Tailwind CSS: Styling at Scale
