Markus Oberlehner

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The Microservices and Microfrontend Mindset: Think Decoupled

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.

Using Testing Library jest-dom with Vitest

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...

Test Smarter, Not Harder: Focus on Outcomes, Not Outputs

When we dive into the world of testing in programming, it's easy to get caught up in the numbers game—how many tests have we written? What's our code coverage? However, if we pause and consider the bigger picture, we realize that the true measure of success isn't the output it's the outcome...