Tests that mimic user behavior help us create better software products — Testing is an important part of software development. Although testing is still sometimes regarded as an afterthought, especially in time-critical projects, methodologies like Test-driven development (TDD) and improved tooling for testing have done a lot in recent years to rectify this. There are great testing frameworks out there for writing…

Progressive Web Apps can be a viable solution for you — Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are a hot topic on the web right now. No wonder, they promise a user experience that should not be inferior to native apps for Android and iOS. …

Reducing the amount of ChunkLoadingError — Our Angular-based frontend is divided into different self-contained modules (e.g. inbox, document center, dashboard…). Those modules are typically rather small and loaded asynchronously. The benefits of splitting up the application into modules: Avoid loading stuff of pages you’re not visiting Initial loading times are improved as we only load the…

The little things which make a difference in UX — Every web site has a title. There are many reasons why a page title is helpful: User navigation: the tab title appears in the browser’s tab, providing users with a quick and visual way to identify and switch between multiple open tabs Bookmarking and history: when a user bookmarks a…

Co-founding a startup ✅ — As some in my social circle had already heard, I left my job as a senior software engineer at a well-known German software scale-up at the beginning of this year to pursue a new goal. I am now the technical co-founder of Sunhat, an automation-focused software company founded to rethink…

Developers love acronyms, so there is finally an acronym everyone can relate to — When it comes to developing for the web, there are a lot of tech stacks out there. You might be familiar with acronyms like LAMP, MEAN, or MERN. On the frontend side, Angular and React are common choices On the backend side, Express.js is the most popular choice On the…

Fixing the past without screwing the Git history — Have you ever worked on the same codebase on different devices? For example using your company laptop as well as your private desktop machine? I have for sure! I’ve always had a dedicated GitHub account for work and my personal one. Obviously, it makes a lot of sense using dedicated…

We still want to see who and why a line of code was changed after formatting — In all recent JavaScript projects we have used Prettier as an opinionated code formatter. Prettier is in fact opinionated as it only supports few customization options by design. Here is a quote from the documentation which should be the biggest reason to adopt Prettier: By far the biggest reason for…

Save your GitHub Actions minutes for more than running jobs after updating the Readme — There was a time when you had to use a third-party CI/CD tool like Jenkins or Travis CI if you were using GitHub. Fortunately, the times have changed. GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate software workflow without having to use a third-party CI/CD tool. …