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20 Oct Unveiling GraphQL: A Potent Tool, Not a Panacea
Recently I decided to begin learning GraphQL because in the past I have worked a lot with REST APIs, and initially based on a lot of info, it seemed like GraphQL was perfect and could be the ultimate successor to REST APIs. However, hands-on experimentation quickly dispelled that notion, highlighting that GraphQL, despite its robustness, isn't a one-size-fits-all solution.
19 Jan How to architect integration or End-to-end(E2E) tests for frontend Single Page Applications(React, Vue, Angular)
Have you ever had the need to work on Integration or End-to-end (E2E) tests for a Single Page Application made in Javascript that uses a remote backend API? In this blog post, we are going to set up from scratch our Cypress 11 test suite...
21 Oct Defining our 2023 architecture for frontend React applications – part #2
Welcome back to the part two of this blog post series, this is a quick preview of the content: 4. Small and slim components and the Single Responsibility Principle, 5. State management, 5.1 What is state management?, 5.2 Why are we considering Recoil.js for global state management?, 5.3 Should you deprecate your current implementation of React Redux? 5.4 React Redux 5.5. Is Redux here to stay? 6. Design patterns 6.1 React Hooks 6.2 React Context API 6.3 Component composition 7. Automated testing
05 Oct Defining our 2023 architecture regarding frontend React applications – part #1
Let’s say you are running along the road and it happens that you find a big blocker(a boulder) so you can not move forward unless you move that big rock, and your first reaction is to just push it really hard, but it does not...