With methodologies like microfrontends and atomic design, and techniques like module federation and import maps, we steadily walk in a direction where our frontend is composed during runtime. And yet, we lack the tools to have cheap tests that ensure that we won't break the system. Let's take a look at a possible solution: contract tests for components.
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#Microfrontends #Contract-Testing #Test #Testing-Library
Team building is often seen as a tool to help a dysfunctional team to get back on track. And just as often, it fails to achieve this goal. Let's take a look at what the team needs and how I as a leader can help.
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#Team-Building #Servant-Leadership #Delegation #Goal-Setting #Leadership #Healthy-Teams
Microfrontends is a term that has come up in recent years, but in reality, we have been doing it for decades. Let's take a look at my journey and the lessons I learned on the way.
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#Microfrontend #Custom-Element #Web-Components #Frames #Ssi #Microservices #Monolith #Software-Development #Architecture
I send out an anonymous survey twice every year - but never during that time were we facing a pandemic. Let's take a look at the impact that this has had on my results.
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#Leadership #Remote-Work #Trust #Healthy-Teams
Your multi-vendor teams are not performing and you're trying to turn it around? Well, you can't - and here's why
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#Leadership #Software #Delivery #Outsourcing #Multi-Vendor #Consultancy #Consultant #Healthy-Teams
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Software created in Germany never had the same flavour as cars. It's actually more of a smell. And this smell is gradually leaking into the other products. But what can we do to change that? I have three ideas.
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#Software #Craftmanship #Leadership #Consultant
Creating a custom element for a demo todo list in a test driven fashion, using jest, dom-testing-tools, LitElement and pure-lit.
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#Web-Components #Custom-Elements #Jest #Jest-Dom #Dom-Testing-Tools #Software-Development #Architecture
What if someone told you that by adding another package to your lit-element project, you will create smaller bundles and write less code?
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#Lit-Element #Pure-Lit #Functional-Components
Testing your bash scripts ain't easy. As testing their unit is tricky by design, I searched for something to test their behaviour and looked at BDD for the terminal.
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#Bdd #Bash #Zsh #Aruba #Cucumber
Javascript errors for you users might get lost if you don't log them. This post is showing a very easy way to get to them, without requiring users to call you on the phone.
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#Console.error #Javascript #Log #Browser #Logging #Error