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3 signs TDD is not helping you and what to do about it
At first sight, Test-Driven Development (TDD) seems like it comes from a magical place where requirements are clear, determined in advance and never change...
No, TDD does not mean you have to know everything in advance
Test-Driven Development (TDD) means you write tests first before you write the implementation. It sounds simple enough, but in practice you feel like this only works for rockstar developers...
3 underrated things great developers do
People are attracted to sexy, complex-sounding things because it's cool to talk about them, and they can act like it's going to fix all of their problems....
Automatic HTTPS for all your development servers
Every developer gets into a situation from time to time, where you're developing a new feature, all the tests pass, you run the application, test everything thoroughly, the result looks great! So you push the code, it gets deployed and... it doesn't work. What the hell is going on?! It works on my machine! ...
Avoid the pain of mocking modules with dependency injection
When you're unit testing, there is no way around it, from time to time you'll need mocking...
Composing Software by Eric Elliot, what you need to know
Functional programming (FP) is a big deal in the Javascript community. It's one of the fundamentals of building good software and great to learn if you want to grow as a developer...
Is clean code even worth the effort?
Did you ever spend a lot of time cleaning, refactoring, testing and documenting your code, you're proud of the result, and then... nobody notices?
4 tips to understand your code 4 months from now
As software developers, we've all been there. You're writing some code, you know it's dirty, but the deadline's coming closer, and you go "it's working now, I'll just **refactor it later", and we all know how that turns out...
How to grow as a developer without getting overwhelmed
So you would like to grow as a developer? Great! There's a lot of good information out there. But there is so much! You can feel like there's a massive mountain of things to learn, and you don't know if you have time to even scratch the surface...
Is object-oriented programming (OOP) dead in frontend development?
If you're following frontend experts on social media, you hear a lot about how great (reactive) functional programming (FP or RFP for short) is for frontend development. Or even that object-oriented programming (OOP) is bad and that we should no longer use it. Then you go to your day job, you're doing OOP and you feel like you're the only one on Earth still using it...