In this post, I will show you how to do visual testing using reg-suit.

Your app could have countless different states in components and layouts. Then it will be tough to find every UI change and you will lose track of how they are supposed to look.

To avoid that, automatic UI testing is necessary for your workflow.

reg-suit is a visual testing tool that allows you to:

• Compare UI changes to the previous one
• Check the report generated by HTML
• Get notified in PR during CI services if UI changed

Example Repo

Here is the reference for the final codebase:

Contents

• Set up React…

In this article, I will walk you through how to automate the installation of TypeScript typings in a package.json.

TypeSync

TypeSync is a tool that allows you to install missing TypeScript typings.

When you execute the command, it will automatically add a typing package in the package.json, like so:

In the previous post, I introduced how to implement Apollo Federation in the Go application.

In this post, I will walk you through the Managed federation feature in Apollo Federation.

Example Repository

Here’s the final codebase on GitHub. main branch is a version of part-1. part-2 branch is used in this post.

Contents

• Managed Federation
• Set up a managed federation

Managed Federation

Apollo Federation is an essential architecture that allows your organization to scale GraphQL API with multiple implementing services in one graph.

It has its own gateway server which handles the request from the client-side and executes incoming operations across the services, like distributes shared data to each service. …

In this article, I will walk you through how to implement Apollo Federation in Go, with a simple example. Here’s the final code base on GitHub:

What Is Apollo Federation?

Apollo Federation is a technology that allows you to compose multiple GraphQL services into a unified data graph.

Apollo Federation can expose one graph for all of the data in service without experiencing heavyweight development or a large code base like a monolithic architecture.

It enables us to collaborate with multiple teams on shared data and to separate concerns to work on any features without interfering with each other.

The idea of this is based on microservice architecture, so you can divide the implementing graphs across multiple composable services. …

TestCafe is an automatic E2E testing tool based on Node.js and supports a cross-browser platform.

In this article, I will show you how to do cross-browser testing with TestCafe on GitHub Actions.

Example Repository

Here’s the final codebase on GitHub:

Contents

• Set Up React App
• Set Up TestCafe
• Set Up GitHub Actions
• What About MacOS?
• Conclusion

Set Up React App

To start, we use create-react-app to set up the React app:

npx create-react-app testcafe-app --template typescript

After installation, run the dev server by running this command:

yarn start

You will see the welcome page:

In front-end development, Babel and polyfill have become indispensable. However, some people argue they’re symbolic of black boxification, and it’s hard to know how they’re working in the build process and the differences between them.

In this piece, I’ll walk you through how polyfill works in a Babel configuration.

Example Repo

Here’s the example codebase on GitHub:

Dependencies

We’ll use these dependencies in this piece.

• @babel/cli@7.12.10
• @babel/core@7.12.10
• @babel/preset-env@7.12.11
• core-js-compat@3.8.1

Overview

1. What's Babel?
2. What's a polyfill?
3. What are the differences between Babel and a polyfill?
4. The process of injecting a polyfill in Babel
5. Does Babel handle all polyfills?
6. Why does IE11 crash in your app?
7. …

CSS in JavaScript has been getting popular these days in front end development.

styled-components is one of the most famous libraries in CSS in JS, and it brought a great DX for a lot of developers, such as name collisions and vendor prefixing out of the box. But there are some issues with performance because of its parser.

When it gets rendered, styled-components:

• Parses the components
• Generates the CSS
• Injects the CSS into the style tag in the HTML file

The whole process could make React render slower in some cases.

In fact, most apps will not even notice the performance issue unless there are a ton of components made up of styled-components. …

A new image picker was announced at WWDC 2020. PHPicker is the replacement for UIImagePickerController and has a lot of new features, such as:

• Doesn’t require full Photo Library access
• Search
• Multiple selections
• Zoon in or out

In this article, I will walk you through how to use PHPicker in a SwiftUI app.

Example Repo

Here’s the final code base on GitHub:

Dependencies

These are the dependencies in this app:

• iOS14
• Xcode12.0/Swift5.3
• PromiseKit 6.13.2

Overview

We will implement this app with the following steps:

1. Add PHPicker to SwiftUI.
2. Handle asynchronous tasks with PromiseKit.

Let’s suppose that we will implement the functionality of picking a photo from the Photo Library and displaying it on a list. …