Web Development

A Richer Activity, Part 2

Displaying data from the activity data service in the Strava feed

Background

Over the last year, the Strava API Team has been working to build a service which can persist new types of activity data. This is the second in a…

Strava’s New End-to-End Testing Setup

Strava runs end-to-end tests of our website before every deploy, but problems have developed over time, mostly around reliability and the ease of adding more tests. Until recently, we ran a suite of Selenium tests against an older version of Firefox (which was…

👍 (Kudos) Reacts Only

The Beginning

I remember the first day of my internship quite clearly — dressing classy not trashy (no need, everyone wears athleisure 24/7), timing myself to arrive exactly on time, and steeling myself in front of the door before realizing it was…

Update to Privacy Zones functionality

Improving safety with randomization

Time to Learn React!

Web Guild Week at Strava

Pace Graphs — Up Is the New Down

In April 2013, Strava released a complete redesign of run activity pages on the web. The changes were comprehensive from both product and engineering perspectives. Amidst a large number of new features and feature enhancements, one seemingly small user experience decision…

Internationalizing Strava

Internationalization is the kind of problem whose solution is comparable to replacing the wheels of a moving train…