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How I, Halfdan Harring, Moved to Cursor, Vibe Coding, Firestore and Capacitor

DEV Community: firebase·Halfdan Harring·5 months ago
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I’m Halfdan Harring, a fullstack developer from Denmark, and over the last period I’ve changed the way I build software quite a lot.

Not in a “I discovered one secret framework and now everything is fixed forever” way.

More like:

I stopped treating coding like bricklaying and started treating it like directing a very talented, slightly chaotic junior developer who never sleeps.

That junior developer is Cursor.

And the stack that makes the whole thing actually work for me is usually:

Cursor

React

TypeScript

Firebase

Firestore

Capacitor

a very large amount of coffee

and the occasional conversation with myself that starts with: “Why is this state updating twice?”

From traditional coding to vibe coding

“Vibe coding” sounds unserious.

And sometimes it is.

But for me, vibe coding does not mean:

“I have no idea what is happening, but the AI said ship it.”

That is not vibe coding.…

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