Making a Master Puppeteer

There are many ways to test a program. From starting miniscule with unit testing, to more grandiose UI testing. Puppeteer falls firmly in the latter category. Puppeteer advertises itself as a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol That is a lot of words. Puppeteer is a walking advertisement of the true potential the Chrome DevTools Protocol has to offer. It oozes ease at the seems, and will leave you with a sense of UI testing in it’s prime....

September 13, 2017 · 4 min · 709 words · Jack Histon

The Wonderful World of Webpack

Webpack is a JavaScript module bundler, or so the blurb goes. This is an apt name for it. However, what I would like to do in this article, is to expand on the true power of Webpack. This article will not explain how to use Webpack. Rather, explain the reasoning behind it, and what makes it more special than just a bundler. Webpack is still a Bundler One of the main reasons for tools like Webpack is to solve the dependency problem....

September 4, 2017 · 4 min · 848 words · Jack Histon