I have written 2 posts on writing unit tests in JavaScript to kickstart 2021. Some of you might wonder why bother writing code that doesn’t ship to production, at least I did at some point. What is software testing? My interpretation of testing is it’s a system to ensure our…

Let us continue the trend of making sure our applications still work and continue working for the rest of 2021. Last week we talked about how to write tests for your JS app. Let’s extend that to a modern framework. Most of people are probably writing their apps in a…

Test is a word that a lot of software engineers say but don’t really do. If you are here then I’m sure you are writing tests 😉. So what is it? My interpretation of testing is it’s a system to ensure our code still works with the addition or deletion…

So you have implemented your API in GraphQL and deployed your Apollo server production. Congratulations! To make it production-ready and scalable, you added caching to the server. And you find out your data is being stale for longer than you think! …

What is GraphQL GraphQL is an alternative way to traditional RESTFul API for data fetching. It has been trending in the industry that many companies start using it as part of their tech stacks, including Article. The benefit it provides includes specifying the response you want to fetch, code being the documentation, and…

Introducing GraphQL into our tech stack to be more future proof — At Article, we recently introduced GraphQL as part of the new technology stack. There are many reasons and discussions behind that decision and we think it is the right time to do so. Old Stack Article has always been mainly using Java for all of our applications and mostly using Vue for…

Ever wondered why your website is slow to load? Let’s figure it out and give it a push — Performance should be one of the top things any engineer should consider when pushing things to production. …

With Vue 3 beta is out, its final release is just around the corner. If you are as excited as I am and want to try it out yourself, I have a Starter Project that may help. …