Henrique's Fantastic World

Henrique's Fantastic World

Flexbox Gotchas Reloaded

Apr 20, 2020

Important: this article describes a problem that cannot be reproduced with Google Chrome, only with Firefox and Edge (I did not test with other browsers). Spoiler alert: it seems like Chrome intentionally deviates from the spec standard. Intro Despit...

Flexbox Gotchas Reloaded

TDD made simple with Mocha and Chai

Feb 5, 2020

Intro From the dark ol’ days of writing an entire application and only then starting to test it (often, manually) till nowadays, I have scoured a painful path of unending bug-fixing in production through the nights, many times not even knowing what w...

TDD made simple with Mocha and Chai

Give your logs more context — Part 2

Feb 4, 2020

Give your logs more context Building a contextual logger This is the continuation of my previous article about logging context. Check it out to better understand the purpose of what we will build. https://blog.henriquebarcelos.dev/give-your-logs-more...

Give your logs more context — Part 2

Give your logs more context — Part 1

Feb 4, 2020

Give your logs more context How to make sense out of your Node.js web app logs Logging might be one of the most difficult things to do right when building a real world application. Log too little and you will be staring at your screen trying to make ...

Give your logs more context — Part 1

A better approach for testing your Redux code

Nov 25, 201920 min read

TL;DR When testing Redux, here are a few guidelines: Vanilla Redux The smallest standalone unit in Redux is the entire state slice. Unit tests should interact with it as a whole. There is no point in testing reducers, action creators and selectors i...

A better approach for testing your Redux code

Things I wish I knew about Terraform before jumping into it

Sep 13, 2017

Things I wish I knew about Terraform before jumping into it A few weeks ago I wrote about my journey into Terraform. You can read more about this quest here: https://blog.henriquebarcelos.dev/how-i-learnt-to-love-and-hate-terraform-in-the-past-few-we...

Things I wish I knew about Terraform before jumping into it