Thanks to the Payment Request API, accepting payments from your users now is a piece of cake. Albeit support from third party payment processors is still rather limited – Android Pay being one of the most notable – this will very likely change in the near future. Furthermore you don't necessarily need a third party payment provider to integrate directly into the Request Payment API, it is also possible to collect credit card data from the user via the Request Payment API and send them to your payment provider using it's own API...
One problem you might encounter when trying to run cross-browser tests in multiple browsers on BrowserStack with TestCafe is the parallel test limit that depends on your BrowserStack plan. At the time of writing, all regular BrowserStack plans include only one parallel test - which means you can only run one automated test at a time...
In this article we'll build acceptance tests powered by TestCafe, BrowserStack, and npm scripts. After setting up local testing we configure Travis CI to automatically run our tests after pushing new code to a Git repository...
In this article, we will examine how to write unit tests for JavaScript code that is intended to run in the browser. We will use use ava as our test runner and the mock-browser package to simulate a browser environment...
One of the most difficult problems to solve when designing websites that are supposed to work well on small screens is creating user-friendly navigations. For a long time the goto solution was to hide the navigation items behind a hamburger button. Although the hamburger button is still going strong, there are some new approaches coming up and gaining traction...
Recently I worked on a couple of npm packages which I built using TypeScript. In the process of figuring things out I encountered some challenges with publishing my code built with TypeScript to npm. In this article I'm going to show you how to setup your project to make publishing your TypeScript powered package to npm a pleasant experience...
Not too long ago not reading the news every day seemed like a silly idea to me. I scanned the latest headlines on my favorite news site at least every couple of hours. I felt obliged to read articles about important political topics but even more I was addicted to read the comments beneath the articles...
A few months ago I started learning more about TypeScript. It was very refreshing and I learned a lot about type-based programming in general. So I was overcome by the natural urge of every programmer who is learning a new technique that they enjoy: I wanted to rewrite everything I ever built with TypeScript...
My blog – you're currently reading – runs on Hugo, and so far I'm very happy with its simplicity and speed. Today I'll show you how we can use a Gulp build process to establish a convenient way to work on Hugo themes. Furthermore, we will utilize UnCSS to enable building a blog that loads almost instantly and scores highly in the Google PageSpeed Insights test...
Styling native HTML form fields – especially select fields – with CSS has always been a little tricky. Recently I was confronted with the task of creating a select field with a placeholder value so that the select field blends in nicely with other form fields on the page. The problem of custom styled select elements is a hard one...