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I ran into the issue of how to manage environment variables with a NextJS app a while ago and made some notes
After living with this for a while and settling on using sops for secrets encryption what I have found works best for me is
I have a Laravel project using vite InertiaJS and React
A unit test calling the Head module from @inertiajs/react
Was triggering this error
Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'createProvider')
For this test I don’t really care about the Head module - but didn’t want to try and mock the whole of inertia-react
Read more ...For some reason I always seem to struggle getting code coverage reports picked up by SonarQube - the documentation isn’t bad but it seems to take me a while to find the right incantation .
I wanted both my PhpUnit tests and Javascript unit tests for my laravel project to generate coverage reports and import this to SonarQube.
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I am working on an application that needs to be able to login to a Laravel instance via API.
In my usual workflow all the session management and XSRF protection has been automagical but I needed to be able to build a test case - and all the docs seemed to assume it would “Just Work™”
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InertiaJs does a great job of helping me build React apps on Laravel. The form help does a great job - especially with displaying validation messages.
But I couldn’t figure out how to change data and save the form in one action.
This is one of those things I wont need again for a while and will forget.
When using nvm to get a new version of nodejs you can find you no longer have packages - including yarn
Read more ...The JavaScript ecosystem is a sea of choices and it seems to be all too easy to make an incompatible selection.
In my case I am using the Yarn package manager, the VSCode editor and TypeScript flavoured JS (I don’t think it really counts as a different language)
Every import statement was triggering an error in VScode
Read more ...Cannot find module ’’ or its corresponding type declarations
I’m running Next.js apps in production using Kubernetes - and I’ve inherited some setup that I didn’t fully understand so I’ve been investigating what is going on with environment variables.
My inherited system used a build per environment and bakes in configuration at that point.
I dislike this because …
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites is pretty awesome. It’s what I use to manage this site.
But much of the web development world has moved in the direction of JavaScript, npm, and Webpack.
So how can you run a Hugo website and manage the embedded JavaScript and CSS that are most commonly managed with npm and Webpack?
Read more ...What’s the difference between providing a rejection handler for a promise and catching errors ?
And why Does the React AJAX FAQ say
// Note: it's important to handle errors here
// instead of a catch() block so that we don't swallow
// exceptions from actual bugs in components.