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Adding End to End Cypress to a Web Project Part 2: Seeding the Test Data

In part two of this guide to adding e2e Cypress, we'll discuss how to generate and seed a test data set for a PostgreSQL database.

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Adding End to End Cypress to a Web Project Part 1: Setting Up the Infrastructure

Setting up end-to-end Cypress testing from scratch for an existing application can be a bit intimidating, so we broke the process down into smaller steps.

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Cypress in Docker with VNC

This post describes the dependencies and configuration needed to run X11, a VNC server, and to get Cypress running in a Docker container.

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Toggling Authentication Providers: Local Storage & HTTP Headers

Our team recently modified a login page that allowed for toggling authentication providers. In this post, I'll describe how we implemented it.

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Sending Emails with Google Sheets & Scripts

Here's an example of sending emails with Google Sheets and Scripts, ways to structure your data importing, and how to schedule the script to run.

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3 Practices to Reduce Flakiness in Cypress Tests

Flaky tests can be difficult to identify and troubleshoot. Here are a few practices to reduce flakiness when using Cypress tests.

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Embedding Google Forms in a Static Site

This approach to embedding Google Forms offers more customizability than embedding a Google Form iframe and isn’t difficult to implement.

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How to Make Writing Performance Tests Easy With Cypress

Performance tests can be used to track app performance over time. Here’s a quick overview of how to track page load for a web app with Cypress tests.

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5 Tips & Tricks that Make p5 Even Better

With all of P5's cool tools, it can be easy to miss an easier or better way to do something. Here are 5 things I've learned over the last year that can make your p5.js experience e

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It’s 2021, and You Should Switch to Yarn 2

On its initial release, taking a wait-and-see approach with Yarn 2 may have been the correct call, but in 2021, it's time to reconsider that decision.

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What Console.Log Really Prints

The browser doesn't evaluate objects right when we print them. Instead, console.log evaluates only one level when printing.

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Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL

It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.

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