Storybook’s visual regression testing tool Chromatic is powerful but expensive. Luckily, with tools like Playwright, we can build a free alternative for running visual regression tests on our UI components. In this article, we’ll explore how to integrate Playwright with Storybook and use Docker to ensure consistent test results across different machines and CI environments.

Nowadays, there are plenty of ways to run and deploy our Next.js application to the World Wide Web. Yet, especially in an enterprise environment or when we don't want to depend on a particular provider like Vercel, we may consider bundling our Next.js-powered application within a Docker container...

Although microservices and microfrontends have been popular choices for building modern software systems, many projects fail to reap their promised benefits. In this article, we explore why this happens and how embracing a decoupled mindset can help you get the most out of these architectures.