CategoryApps

July 28, 2022 — How to organize their testing between unit, integration, and E2E testing and how to test their UI components? Testing is not just about tools and processes. It’s about architecture. In this article, Noam Rosenthal will share his experience on how to organize testing and find the right balance between front-end and subsystems and between different strategies. Read more…

July 11, 2022 — Let’s talk about Remix, the framework to create JavaScript projects using server-side rendering. Let’s go through its main features and concepts and see the similarities and differences with Next.js. Remix became open-source not so long ago, and it has a promising future. Let’s see how it evolves, which features are added, which related projects are created to improve the developer experience, and which other scenarios it tries to solve. Read more…

June 2, 2022 — In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a group chat app. You will build a backend app using Node.js that will make group chats, authorize chat participants, and maintain sessions for them. The front-end will be built using Vanilla JS, HTML and CSS. It will allow users to log in, make new groups, invite friends, and trade messages. By the end, you should have a working app where multiple participants can send messages in one group. Read more…

May 24, 2022 — A well-constructed onboarding process boosts engagement, improves product adoption, increases conversion rates, and educates users about a product. This article is a case study of how the platformOS team has researched, developed, and iteratively adjusted their onboarding processes over more than three years to eventually create the multiple award winning developer experience they provide today. Read more…

May 19, 2022 — Developers are migrating from on-premises technology and embracing the benefits cloud infrastructure offers. Moreso, there is a rapid shift from a monolithic architecture to microservices architecture; this ensures that apps have higher availability, are simple to install, and easy to upgrade with the microservices architecture approach. In this post, we introduced Kubernetes to front-end engineers and explained why Kubernetes is integral in a production-ready microservice architecture. Some key terms that are important for team collaboration were discussed and concluded the post with a quick deployment to getting started as a beginner. Read more…

April 29, 2022 — Performance needs to be built in starting at the code level, and user-centric metrics like time to interactive (TTI), total blocking time (TBT), and first input delay (FID) help you gauge how fast a website is. But modern web pages are heavy and ever-growing in size Introducing Partytown, a lightweight open-source solution that reduces execution delays due to third-party JavaScript by offloading third-party scripts to web workers, which run in background threads. Read more…

April 28, 2022 — In this article, Nathan Smith explains how to create modal dialog windows with rich interaction that will only require authoring HTML in order to be used. They are based on Web Components that are currently supported by every major browser. Read more…

April 22, 2022 — Have you ever wondered, why do people write CLI tools? When is a good time to think about yours? Today we’ll touch on these questions, along with some tips to remember when creating one. However, all of this serves as a prelude to the real topic: end-to-end testing of CLI tools. Read more…

April 18, 2022 — What are the benefits of using push notifications and what can you use them for? In this article, Lee Munroe explains how to implement them and which practices are best to follow. Read more…

April 8, 2022 — Data is among the most important things that make up a web application or a conventional native app. We need data to be able to see and perhaps understand the purpose of an application. In this article, we’ll look at another approach to obtaining data in an application that requires authentication or authorization using Next.js. Read more…