Docker Command Bonus: Dockerizing React AppsIn a previous post on Dockerizing React Apps, I discussed a strategy for running React in a Docker container. In the scripts, I put local-react as the image tag. You'll soon find out trying to use the same tag on all your containers is not the greate...Dec 29, 2020 ยท 2 min readblog.micleners.com
Conditional Rendering of Components in ReactI've been working through the Epic React course from Kent C. Dodd over this holiday season ๐ It's interesting seeing how I code things while I "try it out", then compare it to how Kent codes things in his solutions. One difference I wanted to share ...Dec 26, 2020 ยท 6 min readblog.micleners.com
JavaScript Promises: Alternative to then/catchI promise this won't be a long blog, but no guarantees against puns ๐ The promise is a prominent way to deal with asynchronous code in JavaScript. Many APIs return asyncronousely and use the promise as a return value. The promise is to return data o...Dec 20, 2020 ยท 3 min readblog.micleners.com
How My Team Uses Cypress for End-to-End TestingThis blog is part of a series on end-to-end (E2E) testing in Cypress. In this post, we will take a look at how our team uses Cypress to benefit our workflow and increase the safety in which we deploy new features. This information is available in thi...Dec 17, 2020 ยท 11 min readblog.micleners.com
Creating Netlify Cloud FunctionsI began dabbling with cloud functions with AWS Lambda. That was when I started developing. Around the same time, I learned the difference between a backend and a frontend - and the role of an API. It was a lot to take in, but the differences between ...Dec 13, 2020 ยท 8 min readblog.micleners.com