Recently, I drove an internal XState Working Group, where every participant has to implement a simple project. The machine itself is pretty simple, here I talk about my Design Decisions, mostly related to TypeScript and the Tests. You can play and inspect the machine on CodeSandbox You can fork the…

Is it worth investing hours describing what a bunch of lines of code do? Who will benefit? The description of a PR describes what the developers did, and the code describes how they did it. Me, every time I find out an incomplete/partial PR description 😊 The problem: the hard Reviewer’s life Compared to the Developers…

A fairer comparison between Webpack and Vite, some Vite caveats, and the overall developer experience. This is part of a three-article series about migrating our React+TypeScript codebase from Webpack to Vite. Part 1 is about why we decided to migrate, Part 2 is about how we did it. Putting Webpack on a diet As said…

The meticulous work behind migrating our codebase to Vite, helpful to fail as soon as possible or to succeed in the most brilliant way. This is part of a three-article series about migrating our React+TypeScript codebase from Webpack to Vite. …

What is Vite? Why did we consider it? Is it faster than Webpack? Is it mature enough? This is part of a three-article series about migrating our React+TypeScript codebase from Webpack to Vite. Part 2 is about how we did it, Part 3 is about post-mortem considerations. From Webpack’s slowness to Vite It’s always the…

I’m always eager to explore learning paths (you can read more about it in my Choose what NOT to study and focus on one thing at a time article), but I was still missing re-implementing APIs. An article by Kent C. Dodds inspired me, and here we are. We use…

Writing a book containing a whole course that helps the instructor in case of jams and allows the attendees to follow the course at their own pace. Why? In late 2019, I taught my first Front-end testing course. I talked for four hours, driving the attendees through an unusual path…

Being a jack-of-all-trades does not pay in terms of satisfaction nor deep knowledge, here you can find my experience as a front-end developer that chosen to focus on one thing for at least one month. As a front-end engineer, I am used to reading a lot of articles, study something…

A series of best practices that ease the test writing and debugging phases while using Puppeteer and other browser automation tools. I’m working on a big UI Testing Best Practices project on GitHub, I share this post to spread it and have direct feedback. Before moving to Cypress, I was…