Software engineer, frontend expert, TDD practitioner, and ML
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I'm Markus Oberlehner, a software engineer working on modernizing
Austria's digital tax services. I write articles about Vue.js /
Nuxt, React / Next.js, Test-driven Development, and CSS.
Recently, I switched jobs from karriere.at, Austria's largest job platform, to the Austrian Federal Computing Centre, where my colleagues and I work on modernizing Austria's digital tax services. One of the first things I noticed, looking at the new codebase, was that we heavily use German terms for naming certain classes, functions, and variables. At first, this seemed to me like a giant red flag. But now, after seeing the problem through a different lens, I realize that in many instances, it can make a lot of sense to use our native tongue to name certain things...
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...
