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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...
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...
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.
Recently, I was back on the job hunt. At one particular interview, my potential future colleagues and I got into a discussion about testing, specifically the term end-to-end testing. I was in the awkward position that I didn't have a word to describe a type of test where you run your web application in a real browser...
Vite brought super fast bundling and hot reloading to our regular dev workflow, and Vitest is doing the same for our testing workflow. So I'm mostly transitioning away from Jest in favor of Vitest. But there are a lot of amazing tools in the Jest ecosystem, and not of them can be easily replaced. Luckily, the Vitest API is mostly compatible with the Jest API...
In this article, we'll explore the integration of AI-assisted development with established best practices. We'll discuss how to leverage techniques like TDD, writing user stories, and setting acceptance criteria in the post-ChatGPT era, addressing the limitations and opportunities presented by LLMs...
I could never quite wrap my head around how to test SSR applications (Nuxt, Next.js, Laravel, etc.) that talk to HTTP APIs (e.g., microservices). Using the built-in mocking capabilities of tools like Playwright and Cypress is not possible in this scenario because...
In this article, we’ll explore using SQLite with the VSS plugin to build a “similar products” functionality with Nuxt, Vectory Search, and SQLite...