Author: Mark Otto

NestJS explained in 100 seconds

August 5, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

40+ Node.js Integration Test Best Practices — Component and integration tests are increasingly popular testing techniques for backends. This repository digs into a variety of quick-fire patterns and practices for creating good component tests. There’s also a demo app and examples using Jest, Mocha, Express,…

Better toast for React

August 4, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

What’s New in React-Hot-Toast 2.0 — React Hot Toast is a popular React on-page notifications system. Although the opportunity to customize the notifications in the new release chips away at the original ‘toast’ metaphor, there’s a lot of configurability in the new version that will…

Beating the JavaScript drum

July 30, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Using console.log() Debugging in Visual Studio Code — Using the JavaScript debugger in VS Code you can access the browser developer tools console right inside the editor. Ideal if you’re in that happy majority of console.log debuggers? 🙂 Christian Heilmann Learn the Fundamentals of Redux — Add…

Using Google Drive as a CMS?

July 29, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

ws 8.0: Fast, Stable WebSocket Client and Server for Node — A major update for a mature project that passes industry standard tests for both its server and client abilities. v8.0 improves the developer experience in numerous ways and now uses an ES module wrapper. Luigi…

How to Use Material UI Icons In React

July 28, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction in Material UI Icons In React Hello, Bonjour and Guten Tag to you. We have said it many times before and we won’t get tired of repeating that there are no small things when developing a project. The reasoning behind this belief we have…

Separation of concerns with hooks

July 28, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

A ‘Windows 11’ UI Experience Reproduced with React — There was once a debate about the ‘compromised experience’ of a web app as compared to an app installed on local hardware. Although tools like Google Docs have long since proven this is no longer a…

JS debugging now built in to VS Code

July 23, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

💡 If you like this sort of thing, last year’s State of JS results may also be of interest. Node-RED 2.0 Released — Node-RED is a now very mature ‘low-code’ Node.js-based programming environment, particularly aimed at connecting together services or IoT devices. The 2.0 release…

A super easy way to get local TLS certs automatically

July 22, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

Node-RED 2.0 Released — Node-RED is a now very mature ‘low-code’ Node.js-based programming environment, particularly aimed at connecting together services or IoT devices. The 2.0 release focuses on upgrading dependencies, dropping old Node version support, and an (optional) improved text editor. OpenJS Foundation What Use Cases…