Xander Develops

I Made a Free Curved Text UI Tool for Unity While working on different Unity projects, I kept running into the same small but annoying problem: curved UI text. Menus, badges, circular buttons, arcade-style UI — curved text shows up everywhere. And every time, I’d end up either hacking something together, duplicating prefabs, or writing custom math that I knew I’d have to redo in the next project. Unity doesn’t really give you a clean, reusable way to do curved TextMeshPro UI out of the box. Most solutions online are very specific, hard to customize, or break easily when you change font size or layout. So instead of solving it over and over again, I decided to turn it into a proper reusable component and release it for free. That’s how Curved Text Component – Ultimate UI Toolkit came to life. You can get it here on the Unity Asset Store: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/curved-text-component-ultimate-ui-toolkit-297396 The Goal My goal with this asset was simple: I wanted...

People mix up frontend and backend all the time, and honestly it’s not because the concepts are hard. It’s because we keep explaining them in a lazy way. The usual explanation goes something like this: frontend is how it looks, backend is the logic. It’s quick, it kind of works at first, and it’s also the root of most of the confusion. The real difference isn’t about visuals versus logic. It’s about where the code runs. Frontend code runs on the client’s device . That could be a browser, a phone, a desktop app, a game, whatever. A lot of the time that code is responsible for UI, so people start equating the two. But UI isn’t what makes something frontend, it’s just a common consequence of running code on the client. You can have frontend code that doesn’t show anything at all. Background services, sync processes, local validation, state management, offline handling. No buttons, no screens, still frontend. Saying frontend is “the UI” is like saying a house is defined by having a bed. Mo...