When it comes to testing React components there are plenty of school of thoughts around it. I have been using Airbnb’s Enzyme.js for a while and felt uncomfortable in updating the test specs with ever-changing UI. Then I came across something interesting called Snapshot Testing using Jest. It was also compelling to know that Jest snapshot testing was developed along with the React Developers to make the component testing easier. I do not want to get into a war of words which is better and this post is not intended for it. And the snapshot testing will not replace your...
Continue reading...How to Dockerize NodeJS web app – part 1
Many teams, companies and companies had a struggle in containerizing their NodeJS web apps. There were many reasons behind it. There are multiple ways to dockerize a NodeJS and we will the some of the efficient ways that worked for me and are running successfully in production. When we were trying to create a docker image for our Node JS based application, we chose to use the official Node docker image (~700MB). On top of that we need to add the node modules, business logic, etc and so on. The final image size was staggering (~1.2GB). It was not what...
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