[HN Gopher] My priorities while building a webapp from scratch
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My priorities while building a webapp from scratch
Author : adenta
Score : 16 points
Date : 2022-04-24 17:57 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| If you knew Rails, why did you choose React and all the
| complexity that comes with it? Or are you still using Rails?
| frosted-flakes wrote:
| Because a server-rendered website is not always a good fit for
| a dynamic web app.
| scapegoat2 wrote:
| What do you think about the author's opinion on focusing on
| integration tests? I am a relatively young developer and face a
| lot of backlash at my workplace when I prefer writing integration
| tests to unit tests. Our components have hundreds of unit tests,
| but things break because the data quality of connected systems is
| so poor. I always think, you could make most of these problems
| visible and communicate them to other teams in advance with just
| sending masses of data sets through the system using automated
| integration tests. But instead, we spend our time writing unit
| tests on our poor assumptions and fighting the mess in
| production.
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