In this brief walkthrough, we will use Babel Module Resolver to convert relative paths to aliases for your entire JavaScript application. You can install it via the command line: And use it in your .babelrc file to create your first module alias: In this case, we are giving…

React components connected to Redux can turn out pretty complex. Thus most people think that testing these complex components can turn out very complex as well. But it shouldn't be complex at all, if you take full control of the Redux store in your integration/unit test for the…

When I have been working with my clients over the last years, I have seen how crucial it can be to establish a common sense git workflow for a team to become productive . I experienced several constellations -- for instance when working in a team of thrown together developers…

Snapshot tests are a common way to write lightweight component tests. When a snapshot test runs for the first time, it stores its output (e.g. rendered component's HTML structure) in a snapshot output file. Every time the snapshot test runs again, another snapshot output file…

If you are using Snapshot Tests with Jest for your components, there are a few pitfalls you have to be aware of. Two of them are very likely to apply to your written tests as well: 1) The output of snapshot tests becomes most often too large, if the actual snapshot test renders a…

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up Webpack to use images as assets for your application. Essentially, there is not much in Webpack to include your desired images for your web application. First, put your image files into one folder of your projects application. For…

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up a local font with Webpack. We will use Open Sans, but you can decide to use any other web font as well. If you have your font files already at your disposal, don't bother about downloading them again. For our case, we will download…

Writing tests is an essential part of software development to ensure a robust application. Tests enable us to automatically verify that our application is working on a certain level. The certain level depends on the quality, quantity (coverage) and type of your tests (unit tests…

The following implementation shows you how to integrate Redux Persist into Next.js with a quick example. First, the installation of the library on the command line: Second, rather than having a straightforward function which creates our Redux store, we distinguish between…