Former physics instructor, recovering engineer, graduate student, Washington native, and "Iowa Captive". I love web development and am especially passionate about the intersection of UX and QA.
In a previous post on Dockerizing React Apps, I discussed a strategy for running React in a Docker container. In the scripts, I put local-react as the image tag. You'll soon find out trying to use the same tag on all your containers is not the greate...
I've been working through the Epic React course from Kent C. Dodd over this holiday season 馃巹 It's interesting seeing how I code things while I "try it out", then compare it to how Kent codes things in his solutions. One difference I wanted to share ...
I promise this won't be a long blog, but no guarantees against puns 馃槣 The promise is a prominent way to deal with asynchronous code in JavaScript. Many APIs return asyncronousely and use the promise as a return value. The promise is to return data o...
This blog is part of a series on end-to-end (E2E) testing in Cypress. In this post, we will take a look at how our team uses Cypress to benefit our workflow and increase the safety in which we deploy new features. This information is available in thi...
I began dabbling with cloud functions with AWS Lambda. That was when I started developing. Around the same time, I learned the difference between a backend and a frontend - and the role of an API. It was a lot to take in, but the differences between ...
Containerized development is hot 馃敟 What makes these tools so popular? From my experience, containers: Make complex local environments quick and easy to spin up Allow for specific versioning of languages and packages to coexist locally Provide an e...
