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Storing Cypress environment secrets securely – in Jenkins

March 6, 2023Testingcypress, environment, jenkins, secrets, testingNo Comments

In case you use Azure AD or other SSO clients in your tests, you might have used and kept the test user credentials in the code. This is of course not ideal and it is preferred to keep the secrets out of the repository before the senior gets to review it and lose it.

Speeding up Cypress tests

February 15, 2023Angular, Testingangular, cypress, db images, parellelization, speed up, testingNo Comments

On our recent project for railway topology verification at Schweizer-Electronic we used Cypress for E2E testing. All our workflows require importing or verifying data from various 3rd party systems and…

DTO-typed Reactive Forms in Angular

November 24, 2022Angularangular, dto, forms, reactive forms, type-safetyNo Comments

As of Angular v14, reactive forms are strictly typed. Can you though use a DTO instead of manually defining a new type for a form? Well, yes you can!

How I failed Google interviews twice in a row and what I learned

November 3, 2022Programminggoogle, interviewNo Comments

Hello reader, in case you clicked on this article, it probably means that you would like to get an interview at Google once or already have it planned and you are just gathering some info as I did. I obviously cannot expose the coding challenges even though I would love to see how you would solve them and what you think about them. However, I would like to share my experience that might help you land an interview and also not fail it as I did.

Angular backend environment config

October 31, 2022Angularangular, configuaration, environmentNo Comments

The best practice to configure an Angular app is to define multiple environment files and use one of them at compilation time. Unfortunately, with line-of-business apps, I mostly saw that the usual way is to build a single bundle which is then deployed through individual stages, and each starts it with a different configuration file...

Affordable business applications ?== Google Apps Script

November 18, 2021JavaScriptappsscript, excel, google, invoicing, javascript, sheetsNo Comments

Can't you afford custom line of business applications? Don't worry, Google Apps Script will save you some time and money.

Angular state management made easy!

December 11, 2020Angularangular, observable-store, redux, rxjs, state-management, storeNo Comments

Have you ever had troubles to synchronize your data values and its changes between multiple Angular components? Or have you ever tried using popular solutions like Redux, NgRx and felt confused and overwhelmed? If so, then you might find this article on state management in Angular useful.

Angular TestBed made easy

September 24, 2020Angular, Testingangular, jasmine, karma, testbed, testingNo Comments

Angular CLI projects come with a testing framework and automatically generated test files, however, it is still quite a lot of work to set up those tests for services or components which requires multiple dependencies. In this article, I am going to show you a trick on how to take advantage of already existing module configuration and avoid setting up your (test)bed all the time!

Binding constants in Angular template

September 9, 2020Angularangular, binding, constants, pipe, templateNo Comments

Have you ever wondered how to bind an enum value or a constant in a template of an Angular component? Don't repeat yourself there and take advantage of pipes!

Dependency Inversion Principle in Angular

August 27, 2020AngularangularNo Comments

Dependency Injection is a really nice feature of Angular, however, if you are used to code in C# or Java, you might be familiar with Dependency Inversion Principle, which helps to keep things a bit less coupled and a bit more organized.