Two years of micro-frontends: A retrospective

We’ve now been using micro-frontends for two years at Beamery. In May 2018 we wrote a post announcing to the world that we’d solved our legacy application problem. Legacy is a constant in JavaScript. Here’s how we solved it

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Practical Guide To Testing React Applications With Jest — Smashing Magazine

14 min read Apps, React Share on Twitter or LinkedIn Building a well-functioning application requires good testing; otherwise, knowing whether your application works as expected would be a matter of guesswork and luck. Jest is one of the best tools available for testing React applications.

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Getting SSH & Git to Work Together when You Have Multiple SSH Keys

Key Ring by Denise Krebs. Cropped. Licensed under CC-BY-2.0. Good security hygiene includes keeping your credentials separate. You should have separate identities for work and personal tasks. Unfortunately, that’s not so easy with SSH and Git.

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How Recoil Got Me Excited About the Future of State Management in React

The universe around front-end development and especially React front-end development is getting more and more exciting with each and every day. Just about a month ago, a new state management library for React was open-sourced by Facebook software engineer Dave McCabe.

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Sharing React Components between a Web App and an Electron Desktop App

The React library has enjoyed a very active contribution from developers around the world who love it so much. Starting out as a library to develop user-interface for the web, you can now use React to create everything: web, mobile, and desktop apps.

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Senior to Lead software developer, things they didn’t tell you

It’s rare you will get to pick up a coding task from start to finish, especially if its a big task. If you do everything else will take a hit. Trust your team! You will never grow as a team if you try and control everything. All developers have strengths and weaknesses, including leads.

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10 Decision Points for a Micro Front-End Approach

In an era where certain JavaScript frameworks become out of favor at lightening speed, frontend developers are busy rewriting applications using new, emerging ways all the time.

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