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Using Docker to instantiate local databases
From tutorials to enterprise-level software, knowing how to set up a local database instance is a mandatory skill. You’ve probably had to go through tons of installers to instantiate databases…
An approach to routing testing in React
In React applications, there are many ways for testing routing behavior in our components. You might find solutions on the internet, but they probably will depend exclusively on your current…
CodeTips#3: How Specificity works in CSS
When working on web apps, at some point, you will need to overwrite styles from components to which you have no access to the CSS source code, or maybe you…
CodeTips#2: Clean code in JavaScript
INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION I believe the comic strip above sums it well: You write clean code mainly to understand yourself in the future. Not only that, you write clean code as…
A beginner’s personal journey into automated tests
Like many engineers, I landed into coding kind of by accident. I was programming alone and unsupervised for a decade and my work was mostly guided by what I felt…