Rationale When working in a React application, one pain point that often comes up is Redux . People say that as soon as an application uses it, things quickly get overrun with boilerplate and "wiring" code that ultimately clogs your codebase more than it helps it. This isn't something inherent to Redux but more something to do with the best practices associated with it, and with people misusing …

While snapshot testing has been around for a while in the form of visual snapshots (used in visual regression testing), it's clear that the introduction of textual snapshots in Jest a few years ago had a big impact on testing, not only in Javascript but in other languages as well. But looking back on what it brought me a few years later I feel rather failed by snapshots. And while most of the blam…

Hello everyone! By now I think a lot of you might have noticed something was different with me lately, and I've been meaning to approach the subject but it's taken me a while to get the courage to pull the trigger. I've struggled a bit throughout my life with my image, my esteem and my identity. This has manifested in quite a lot of ways over the years (yes including the hair ??‍♀️) but it too…