This will be a short one but it should be handy for anyone who needs HTTPS setup on localhost or better yet with a custom domain. We need local-ssl-proxy, a simple SSL HTTP proxy using a self-signed certificate. npm install -g local-ssl-proxy Install certificate generation utilities locally: brew install mkcert…

Learn how to use XState and Finite State Machine to architect your app Recently my team starts wondering if there are better ways to control the workflow in our applications. …

Ditch babel loader for SWC to make your pipeline 30% faster JavaScript evolves every year with new features, new syntaxes, and new function that we can use to make our lives easier. However, browsers need to be updated so they can run these codes. …

A quick glance into how software engineer interviews are conducted To some people this sentence probably brings them nightmare. Interview is a long and tiring process. You might study everything and companies still manage to find ways to reject you. Like many people, not only have I been interviewee multiple…

What does a Senior Engineer to and how do you become one? I’ve recently finished reading a book about what a Staff Engineer does. You can read about it from https://staffeng.com/. Ever since I started working as a software engineer back in 2017, I’ve set my eyes on how to…

I am trying to formulate a story to start off this post but I can’t come up with any after work so here goes nothing. function setUser(name, age) { // api request with name and age } Above you just saw a very normal JavaScript function with normal parameters that…

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…