Building the Stack

Do you have some more specific suggestions for handling e2e testing with a database in CI?

Wrestling with the best approaches to having a DB available populated with data in the CI setting (dedicated test db that spins up with seed data vs a say a dedicated test user or tenant in the production db). Less worried about read…

Updating NgRx effects ofType in VS Code using multi-line regex

I’ve never done multi-line search and replace in VS Code. The NgRx 7.0 breaking change made this a useful skill action.ofType(Stuff).pipe(map(other => otherStuff)) now needs to place ofType in the pipe…

Any reason why you’re starting with ActiveModel Serializers for a private API?

I’ve found that the responses are often bloated (JSON-Api requirement) for an app where I’m storing state in the browser (ie redux) and just using the api for a controlled front end.

Beware using model named Format in a Rails API

Just spent a fair amount of time troubleshooting an error that was throwing a really weird strong parameters bug. Something along the lines of a “JSON”:String not having a method permit. It was in my FormatsController that was a copy paste from a…

Great stuff, Jason— interested to try it out!

Couple of things I came across in attempting to install:

It looks like your instructions for updating nx are deprecated in the new release…instead of npm run update I’m getting the message

Nx update is now deprecated.
Please use…

Prettier in VS Code for Typescript

Wondering why prettier isn’t fixing your code formatting for you on save in VS Code (typescript)?

I spent a few minutes trying to figure out why this wasn’t working for me in Angular. Hopefully this helps someone not feel silly as I did when…

Making Angular AMP friendly?

Didn’t have the time to dig in so here’s a few thoughts just based on the initial errors that popped up.

I’m guessing they’re linked to the assumption that you’ll still want to client side render the page in JavaScript, which is not a good assumption with AMP.

Agree with the sentiment of a release cadence, but not sure what this has to do with DevOps.

Model I’ve heard the most about uses flags to turn on and off experiments for various groups. If you’re using that model, then ui and feature changes should be disconnected from the devops cycle, but instead be gated by the feature…

Setting default config elements in Angular 6 w/ NX

Was having some trouble with the schematics generator using nrwl’s NX in a monorepo, as my preferred defaults weren’t getting generated.

It’s performance-destroying to have to make sure you remember to set…