Integration testing vs. unit testing Unit tests are great for testing a function for a specific behavior, if you code right and create your “mocked” dependencies right you can be reasonably assured of your code’s behavior. But our code doesn’t live in isolation, and we need to make sure all the “parts” are connected and…

Most developers new to the NPM or NodeJS ecosystem are unaware of the power 🔌 available to them in the package.json file. However, this file also is critical to any open or closed source project, as it is the entry point of the application. After working with a few projects…

We’ve all been there, sitting and writing a great web app with the latest technology only to find ourselves later on, years if we’re lucky, facing an end of support, deprecation warnings, or just a lack of ability to do things in the now “modern” way. This is why the…