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Running Visual Regression Tests with Storybook and Playwright for Free

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.

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Running Next.js with Docker

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...

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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.

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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...

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