Integration tests are one of the most reliable methods to harden your app, but it’s missing one thing… what the visitors are actually seeing in the UI! How can we use Visual Regression Testing to level up our integration tests and gain confidence in our work? We’ll take a look at Applitools Eyes and how...
Have you ever used the Wayback Machine from the Web Archive? It’s an incredible tool that lets you access past versions of a website as a snapshot in history, complete with actual HTML, images, and more. In this tutorial, we’re going to build our own website archive that uses GitHub Actions to automatically take a...
GitHub Actions are a great way to automate our daily code tasks, but what about that report you have to generate every day for your boss’s boss? How can we use GitHub actions and cron to generate and email a daily report? What are GitHub Actions? GitHub Actions are configurable tasks that run a set...
Automation typically includes purely code-based tasks that don’t even think about a browser, but some tasks need to interact and use the browser as a human would like performing a search on a site. How can we leverage tools that can automate the browser and pack it into a serverless API endpoint to make easily...
Tests are critical part of any codebase, making sure our application is behaving as expected, but how does that apply to testing APIs like Next.js serverless functions? While there are great tools like Postman that can make actual requests to an endpoint, how can we test the code that actually gets executed inside of the...
WordPress and JavaScript-based frameworks like Next.js and Gatsby make powerful combos, delivering a great CMS editing experience with a fast and performant front end, but if we’re using WordPress headlessly, we don’t automatically have a mechanism to trigger a new deploy. How can we take advantage of web hooks to make sure our websites are...
As developers, we have a variety of code tasks that are all important steps to get to the end goal of delivering great apps. Linting for instance can help avoid bugs and save your team’s sanity for code style preferences. How can we take advantage of linting in our Next.js apps and even automate the...
GitHub Actions are a powerful tool to automate all kinds of tasks in your workflow. While there are a ton of options available on the Marketplace, those existing Actions might not fit your use case or infrastructure. How can we write our own GitHub Action to automate our project’s tasks? What are GitHub Actions? GitHub...
Automation is a powerful tool. It both saves us time and can help reduce human error. But automation can be tough and can sometimes prove to be costly. How can Github Actions help harden our code and give us more time to work on features instead of bugs? What are Github Actions? Actions are a relatively...