Live Coding an Open Source Feature
How do I approach a new feature in an open source project? How do I TDD a frontend feature? What do we use for cross-browser testing? All this and more in this live coding session recording
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How to Use Github Actions Self-Hosted Runners?
How and when to run Github Actions jobs on your own machine?
In a previous blog, I wrote about using your own Docker images with Github actions. One of the comments was about contacting private or custom docker registries …
How to Build a Vivid Birthday Quiz in 20 minutes?
Vivid, Vonage’s design system, is now published. What better way to celebrate Vivid’s public birthday than to build a birthday quiz? Let’s have a vivid birthday!
Vivid is an open-source vanilla JavaScript design system built upon the web components technology. …
The One Trick to Writing Effective Tests
How do you know your test is effective? How do you know your test protects you from breaking changes? And how can you do TDD without doing TDD? The best distillment of TDD taken from a TDD workshop in JFokus.…
3 Simple Habits to Improve Your Tests
How can tests be your best documentation? What small changes can improve the contract between your code and its consumers? Learn how to improve your tests from a real-world example.
Yes, we write them to ensure fewer things break before …
2 Ways to Use Your Own Docker Image in Github Actions
How to use the docker image to run Github Actions? How to use them to speed up the flows and stabilize tests? And when you should not use them?
This article assumes you have prior knowledge of github actions and …
How to Build a Chrome Extension that will Make Your Facebook Posts Better?
How to build a chrome extension, manipulate and interact with a page and publish it to the Chrome Web Store? Here’s how I created a Chrome extension that enables me to style the text in my posts and comments – …
How to Create a Chrome Extension?
Did you know you can improve your (and your colleagues’) life by developing chrome extensions? Keren Kenzi showed how to do it in Fullstack Exchange 2022
In Fullstack Exchange 2022, Keren Kenzi gave an excellent talk about a chrome extension…
What is the Coupling Pitfall and how to Avoid it?
How to avoid constant tests maintenance and regressions in your code? In this article, we will talk about a new term “the Coupling Pitfall”, what harm it is doing to your code, and a way to fix it.
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How to optimize JavaScript Performance?
How can we profile and optimize our JavaScript code? How can we profile and optimize rendering in the browser? How does it all relate to the all-mighty Event Loop?
This year I participated in ConfrontJS 2022. ConfrontJS is a conference …