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Effection: for when async/await is not enough
Jonas Niklas — October 26, 2021
Everyone who has built a complex system in JavaScript has hit a critical moment when concurrent processes become unmanageable. But with Effection—an OSS async/await alternative—you'll spare memory leaks and headaches.
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Interactors: the design systems testing ally
Charles Lowell and Jeffrey Cherewaty — August 04, 2021
Components from a design system make building UIs easy. It should be just as easy to test them. Interactors enable more robust tests for component-based UIs, and improve component libraries' maintainability.
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Relieve developers’ churn in your Cloud native strategy with Backstage
Taras Mankovski — May 14, 2021
Adopting Cloud native strategies has proven to improve organizations' delivery performance, but the complexity brought in with them is making life harder for developers. Using the example of a unified Secret manager, I present how Backstage can improve DX in the Cloud native world.
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Unleashing the Genie: Helping both designers and developers with Storybook
Varya Stepanova — April 07, 2021
Good documentation is key to design systems. However, what "good" means varies according to the reader. This article will go through tips to generate documentations for designers and developers from a single Storybook—keep everyone happy with minimum effort!
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There and Back Again: Testing and Stack Upgrades
Taras Mankovski — February 18, 2021
Upgrading your application stack to new major versions can be terrifying, especially when you have a massive application with 75 developers working on features non-stop. However, a good testing strategy gives you confidence to make bold moves that take your organization to heretofore unexplored lands.
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Kubernetes: Dip your toes in this
Min Kim — January 29, 2021
Kubernetes is on the rise and having it in your toolkit can get you a long way. In this article, Min shows us how to set up a MicoK8s in your local machine.
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The context dilemma: design tokens and components
Varya Stepanova — January 15, 2021
Design tokens are used to keep a consistent look across an entire system. How do you name them semantically if they have to make sense everywhere but also respond to the inner logic of individual components which are independently developed?
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Renaming `main` with purpose
Jorge Lainfiesta — December 11, 2020
As generic default branch names like `master` for Git repos have gone out of fashion, possibilities emerge for more effective and informative naming conventions. Learn about the branch naming strategy Frontside uses for our Open Source libraries and how we name app project branches.
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