Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Aimee Knight

Corey House

AJ O'Neal

Special Guests: Ben Coe, Aaron Abramov, and Issac Schleuter

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists talk with Ben Coe, Aaron Abramov, and Issac Schleuter about test coverage and testing tools. They talk about the different tools and libraries that they have contributed to the coding community, such as NYC, conf, and Jest. They also discuss what test coverage is actually about and when using test coverage tools is necessary.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• What have you contributed to the testing tools community?
• npm
• NYC tool and instanbul project
• conf
• Jest
• These libraries were developed to be easy and have “batteries included”
• False positives with test coverage
• Encourage testing practices that don’t practice in a superficial way
• Test coverage is about making sure you test every state a public API can get into
• Think through the test you’re writing first
• Barriers against testing
• Don’t spike the code too quickly
• Provides guardrails for newer developers to contribute to open source projects
• Use tests to understand the system
• How to spend your time better
• When you need tests
• Value is very short term
• TDD
• And much, much more!

Links:

• @BenjaminCoe
• @AaronAbramov_
• Issac’s GitHub

Picks:

Charles

• React Roundup
• Views on Vue
• Adventures in Angular
• React Dev Summit 2018

Aimee

• Galentine’s Day
• Dnote CLI

AJ

• The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

Corey

• We are hive project guidelines
• Tip: You can install node as a dependency on your project

Ben

• Hack Illinois 2018
• C8

Aaron

• Reason

Issac

• The Tap 100
• Krypton App
• Friendly Fire Podcasts

Sponsors

• Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus

• Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit

• CacheFly

Panel

• AJ O’Neal

• Charles Max Wood

Joined by Special Guest: Anatoliy Zaslavskiy

Summary

Anatoliy Zaslavskiy introduces pickle.js and answers the panels questions about using it. The panel discusses the automated testing culture and employee retention. The panel discusses job satisfaction and why there is so much turn over in development jobs. Charles Max Wood reveals some of the reasons that he left past development jobs and the panel considers how the impact of work environments and projects effect developers. Ways to choose the right job for you and how to better a work situation is discussed. Anatoliy finishes by advocating for junior developers and explaining the value they bring to a company.

Links

• https://github.com/storybooks/storybook

• https://www.picklejs.com/docs/getting-started

• https://opencv.org/

• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snapcrap/id1436238261

• https://tolicodes.com/

• https://www.facebook.com/tolicodes

• https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber

• https://twitter.com/JSJabber

Picks

AJ O’Neal

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim

• How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic, Second Edition by Michael Jay Geier  

Charles Max Wood

• https://andyfrisella.com/blogs/mfceo-project-podcast

• https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/the-askgaryvee-show-podcast/

• The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd by Allan Dib

• Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Anatoliy Zaslavskiy

• Acro yoga

• http://www.cuddleparty.com/

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews Sean Grove from OneGraph; asking him questions about GraphQL tooling and common complaints about GraphQL. Sean starts by explaining what GraphQL is and how it benefits frontend developers. GraphiQL is a frontend open sourced tool produced by OneGraph, Sean explains how this handy tool simplifies GraphQL. 

Authentication and authorization are one of the biggest criticisms of GraphQL. Sean walks the panel through the solution, getting a schema definition language and adding directives to build a simple authentication and authorization. The panel defines authentication and authorization and explains the difference. 

The next issue common with GraphQL that the panel discusses is migration. Sean explains how OneGraph helps with migration using a Rust network layer and how it works. They also discuss how to migrate without this tool. Without the tool it is painful and he recommends incremental migration. 

Sean explains that another problem in GraphQL is poor documentation. He explains why the documentation is poor and explains how they hope to fix it at OneGraph. The last issue they cover is the length of queries. Sean tells the panel how they can handle this problem with depth analysis or persistent queries. The episode ends with an elevator pitch for Reason. 

Panelists

• Aimee Knight

• AJ O’Neal

• Charles Max Wood

• Dan Shappir

Guest

• Sean Grove

Sponsors

• Split

• CacheFly

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Links

• https://github.com/graphql/graphiql 

• https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-401-hasura-with-tanmai-gopal/ 

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Picks

Aimee Knight:

• http://ergonomictrends.com/hand-wrist-exercises-computer-users/ 

• Cats in your lap

AJ O’Neal:

• The Grievance Studies Affair 

• Go Proverbs 

• Music

Dan Shappir:

• Guatemala

• Tigana 

Sean Grove:

• Yuki Li: “Breaking Out of Box” 

Charles Max Wood:

• A Christmas Story

• Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

• The Little Drummer Boy

• Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

• The Ultimate Gift

• Frosty the Snowman

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This Viewpoint summarizes current shortcomings in direct-to-consumer genetic tests, which often lack clinical utility for consumers, and explains how tests that encompass entire genes and include only genes with well-established risk estimates and medical management guidelines could provide more valuable insight into their disease risk.

Billionaire investor Ajay Piramal has pumped in an undisclosed sum to pick up a minority stake in serial entrepreneur C Sivasankaran’s comeback business Utoo Cabs, a cab aggregator.

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