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Modern FullStack JavaScript interview topics that were not explicit in the source outline but are common in production discussions.

This domain covers modern FullStack topics that often appear in production and senior interviews but were not explicit in a minimal JavaScript outline: **AI-assisted development**, **LLM product integration**, **privacy and data governance**, **product analytics and experimentation**, **payments and subscriptions**, and **offline-first sync**.

These areas share a pattern: probabilistic or distributed behavior, policy constraints, and user-visible failure modes. Strong answers name boundaries, evidence, auditability, and rollback—not only happy-path diagrams.

On interviews: pick two topics and connect them (e.g., LLM feature + PII governance; payments webhooks + idempotency; offline sync + analytics event ordering).

Common pitfalls: treating AI output as trusted; shipping LLM tools without authz; analytics without guardrails; payment state from browser redirects; offline UX that hides conflicts.

The trade-off is breadth of "modern stack" literacy versus depth on any one regulated or money-moving system—use child topics for depth.

Checklist:

  • Name ownership and verification for AI-generated changes.
  • Bound LLM capabilities and measure with evals.
  • Map data flows for privacy and deletion.
  • Instrument experiments before full rollout.
  • Model payments as event-sourced workflows.
  • Design offline UX for conflicts and retries.