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howToTestFE

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i run https://howtotestfrontend.com, a site full of resources and tips on how to test React frontend code.

i would guess most links i post are either about testing, frontend development, typescript, etc etc.

i also post interesting links i found around the web. the only site that is mine is www.howtotestfrontend.com, the rest are just ones i think might be interesting on hacker news.

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howtotestfrontend.com 14d ago

Popular Front end Libraries (2026)

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howtotestfrontend.com 21d ago

React Testing Interview Questions That Trip Up Engineers

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piechowski.io 25d ago

How to Audit a Legacy Codebase in the First Week

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news.ycombinator.com 25d ago

Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?

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howtotestfrontend.com 28d ago

Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser)

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howtotestfrontend.com 1mo ago

Code Smells when you get AI to write your Front end Tests

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newsletter.posthog.com 1mo ago

The stuff nobody tells you about startup marketing

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howtotestfrontend.com 1mo ago

Use Faker to improve the quality of your tests

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performance.dev 1mo ago

The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast

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github.com 1mo ago

Reverse Engineering Linear's Sync Engine: A Detailed Study

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performance.dev 1mo ago

How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

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howtotestfrontend.com 3mo ago

Use Faker to improve the quality of your tests

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howtotestfrontend.com 4mo ago

Vitest vs. Jest

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posthog.com 5mo ago

PostHog's 404 Page

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shiptypes.com 5mo ago

Ship Types, Not Docs

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howtotestfrontend.com 5mo ago

From 88 to 24 Seconds: Drop-In Replacements That Cut CI/CD Runtime by over Half

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www.pcgamer.com 6mo ago

OpenAI's internal documents predict $14B loss in 2026 according to report

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github.com 6mo ago

Whenwords: An Open Source Library Without Code

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about.digg.com 6mo ago

Digg.com Is Back

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 6mo ago

Malicious GhostPoster browser extensions found with 840k installs

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www.theguardian.com 6mo ago

ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US

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howtotestfrontend.com 6mo ago

Everything you need to know about act() in React tests

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www.royalbhati.com 6mo ago

Why Object of Arrays beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance issue

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www.youtube.com 6mo ago

Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google [video]

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rscexplorer.dev 6mo ago

React Server Components exploit in RscExplorer (CVE-2025-55182)

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www.salon.com 6mo ago

Data centers are West Virginia's new strip mines

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www.youtube.com 7mo ago

Coding Snake in Functional JavaScript (2018) [video]

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fortune.com 7mo ago

Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026

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howtotestfrontend.com 7mo ago

Vitest Browser Mode Guide

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howtotestfrontend.com 7mo ago

What makes a good front end test? tips and tricks

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100%. its a horrible code smell, and AI loves to jest.mock (or vi.mock()). (The most recent blog post on my site covers this as one of the things to look out for in AI generated tests...)

in JS (with Jest/Vitest) it is far too easy to call mock()...

PostHog's 404 Page 5 months ago

not sure how interesting to others, but i thought this was really cool.

(I am not affiliated with posthog at all. Just typed an incorrect address and came across it.)

Has anyone got any good resources for something like this? I haven't touched C in years, and never worked on anything game-like. But it does look like a really interesting project to start something like this.

just saw this today - "whenwords, a relative time formatting library that contains no code." I wonder with AI this will become a popular thing soon that we see other 'libraries' doing... provide good specs, leave it to AI (And trust ai) to interpret

GitHub Incident 6 months ago

If GH has an issue, it seems to always be around 4pm or 5pm GMT. I'm starting to think that i should avoid any planned production releases around this time.

AskHnWisdom 7 months ago

(not my site, just found it online - seems to be most popular/useful ask hn threads)

Same, it is a question of time.

For me, weekends only... I used to do a lot of freelance work (years ago...more than a decade ago), somehow I used to find more time then for side projects... with full time employment is is impossible to find the time.

I wonder how many of these vibe coding build apps will grow to massive apps/be really popular (I imagine a lot of them will)... and what kind of security vulns we'll see everywhere because of how it was initally built...

i can only imagine that services like described in this article will become a very common part of getting proof of concepts built with AI into production.....

I wonder what it will be like in 5-10 years time to look back at this sort of time, as we start to figure out the next way to code...