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What is DX anyway: a chronological overview
Jorge Lainfiesta — January 26, 2022
You can only optimize for concrete indicators, that’s why having a clear understanding of DX is important to improve it. In this article, we review the main trends of the past decade.
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Tutorial: Easier onboarding with Backstage and VSCode dev containers
Min Kim — January 24, 2022
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to set up dev containers to make it easier to onboard developers.
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Simplified local development and testing with Auth0 simulation
Paul Cowan — January 13, 2022
Auth0 can be difficult to manage in local development and within testing environments such as CI/CD pipelines. An Auth0 simulator can save you from branching your code or maintaining mocks in your tests.
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Effection: for when async/await is not enough
Jonas Niklas — October 26, 2021
Everyone who has built a complex system in JavaScript has hit a critical moment when concurrent processes become unmanageable. But with Effection—an OSS async/await alternative—you'll spare memory leaks and headaches.
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Interactors: the design systems testing ally
Charles Lowell and Jeffrey Cherewaty — August 04, 2021
Components from a design system make building UIs easy. It should be just as easy to test them. Interactors enable more robust tests for component-based UIs, and improve component libraries' maintainability.
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Relieve developers’ churn in your Cloud native strategy with Backstage
Taras Mankovski — May 14, 2021
Adopting Cloud native strategies has proven to improve organizations' delivery performance, but the complexity brought in with them is making life harder for developers. Using the example of a unified Secret manager, I present how Backstage can improve DX in the Cloud native world.
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Unleashing the Genie: Helping both designers and developers with Storybook
Varya Stepanova — April 07, 2021
Good documentation is key to design systems. However, what "good" means varies according to the reader. This article will go through tips to generate documentations for designers and developers from a single Storybook—keep everyone happy with minimum effort!
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There and Back Again: Testing and Stack Upgrades
Taras Mankovski — February 18, 2021
Upgrading your application stack to new major versions can be terrifying, especially when you have a massive application with 75 developers working on features non-stop. However, a good testing strategy gives you confidence to make bold moves that take your organization to heretofore unexplored lands.
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