This is a detailed step-by-step guide for setting up Laravel Sanctum with cookie-based authentication. It explains the logic behind each step and how to set up Postman. We also tackle the most common CORs issues.
How to run fake e2e tests using react-testing-librabry? Here's a quick tutorial on how to speed up your feedback loop when working in front end applications.
In the previous article, we set up a monorepo project with 2 applications and a package. We also enabled Yarn workspaces to manage the dependencies and linking of the workspaces. One inconvenience so far was having to start 2 separate terminal windows to run the applications. This isn’t a...
I’ve really learned to love a good monorepo setup, a repository that contains multiple packages and/or applications. Being able to make changes across applications or packages in 1 pull request (PR), having the option to centralize and reuse code over applications, and unifying documentation and processes greatly simplifies...
Over my career I’ve dabbled in various forms of testing, both on the backend and front-end. I’ve tried various frameworks and experimented with different approaches, types of tests, and philosophies. From unit tests to Gherkin behaviour tests to E2E tests with Selenium in the good ol’ days, I’...
Ok. So. The honeymoon phase is over. I can say TypeScript is steadily becoming a part of my daily stack. While working on converting music-fns from Flow to TypeScript I bumped into a feature I didn’t know existed. But first, a little bit of context. music-fns is a utility...
Rationale I love React and I love Redux, but one of the things I struggle with a lot is how complicated the latter can make codebases. You add it and look away for five seconds and suddenly it’s all boilerplate and wiring code, sometimes to do very simple things....
As you (might) know, our current website is built on Gatsby. I love the fact we’re generating a super cacheable, fully static site with every build, but this adds a couple of limitations. One of the limitations of this setup is having no backend (I know that sounds funny)...
While snapshot testing has been around for a while in the form of visual snapshots (used in visual regression testing), it’s clear that the introduction of textual snapshots in Jest a few years ago had a big impact on testing, not only in JavaScript but in other languages as...