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.
Specmatic quickly became my favorite tool for contract testing microservices and for using it as a stub service to test frontend applications. Together with Playwright this makes for a great combo! Yet there is a problem with this approach: Out of the box we can't run tests in parallel with this setup because Specmatic's stub server, by default, isn't designed for parallel execution...
After being rejected to speak at several conferences, I wondered: Why is it so important to me? The answer: a deep sense of not-enoughness that I try to overcome by pushing harder and harder to accomplish more and more...
I'm currently working on building a comprehensive form component with React. As usual, as I typically do, I built it all by myself without reaching for a form library. And, as usual, although I kinda got where I wanted, I was not satisfied with my code and decided to opt for a ready-made form library...