Sometimes popularity is an indication of quality. Other times, popular things are popular for popularity’s sake, and not because they’re better than alternatives. On real production projects, I have…
Jani Hartikainen looks at testdouble.js (a new mocking library with a streamlined API) and puts it head-to-head with Sinon.js, the JS test double incumbent.
Mocha is one of the most popular Node.js testing frameworks and while it may seem daunting, it’s actually pretty easy to get started with. This tutorial is all about Mocha basics. By the end of this…
Get types like string, number, null, or custom classes at runtime. V8 can now collect type information. V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript engine. Chrome, Node.js, and many other applications use…
This is the story of how frontend engineers at Podio improved productivity, developer experience and reduced technical debt simply by ditching Karma and Jasmine in favour of Mocha and jsdom. Testing…
Let's take a look at the available options & tools to debug Node.js - the pino & debug modules, the built-in debugger, the v8 inspector & Visual Studio Code
Let's take a look at node-report, a project which helps you to do post-mortem diagnostics & figure out what went wrong with your Node.js app in production.