The Call Kent Podcast

Why did you decide to migrate your tests from Cypress to Playwright? Are there any particular advantages? Would you recommend starting using playwright from now on? Twitter Question Would you recommend to use Playwright or Cypress?

self-promotion is a really difficult task to do either in public like on social media platforms or when you are among your co-workers and bosses and you wanted to talk about something you achieved but afraid that you will look like a bragger. How to Shamelessly Self-Promote?

There are a lot of IDEs and text editors. Why did you choose VScode? Why not more complex solutions like Webstorm? Why are you programming in VScode?

Whilst using remix I realized even after naming a file .client.ts and importing it into the remix page, it does not affect how remix generates html on the server. As an SSR framework it always generates the html on the server and so accessing the window becomes undefined. The solution to that is to run the code in useEffect. I was wondering if there are ways around that instead of having to throw...

How to unit-test a graphical component? For example, how to unit-test a map or a chart in React since there is no text to select and to run tests against? Testing a graphical component

Will there be a KCD Trilogy? https://EpicWeb.dev (https://kentcdodds.com/blog/i-m-building-epicweb-dev) Will there be a KCD Trilogy? (Yes)

How do you automate KCD? How I'm So Productive #automation ScriptKit kentcdodds/.kenv How do you automate KCD?

in response to this tweet: https://twitter.com/Rovolutionary/status/1564338893691953154 Question about testing a reusable component

Why do we need full stack developer? "Your job as CEO of a startup is to hire generalists to build and then hire specialists to scale. Pretty simple." - Adam Gazdecki Full Stack Developers... Why?

I'm using Remix to create an app that displays a list of images, similar to a gallery. I am using Cloudinary for storage and Mantine for UI. Since I am using Mantine's DropZones control, it has an onDrop callback to handle dropped files, how could I direct it to Remix's ActionFunction to handle the dropped files since it's not a form, thus there's no post. Example useFetcher useSubmit Mantine's ca...

What arguments tend to convince engineers of how important E2E tests are in your experience? The Testing Trophy and Tearing Classifications Common Testing Mistakes How do you convince your team to use E2E?

Seeking advice on pros and cons of migration an application from React/Rails to Remix Remix Discord Remix GitHub Discussions Migration from React/Rails hybrid to Remix

I wanted to know if you had the chance to try it and some of your thoughts on it! Do you have any thoughts on Playwright?

Hi, I have a personal website and I am wondering if there's a need to add a privacy and cookie policy. I also want to know your suggestions or recommendations around cookie policy managers and privacy policy content. If I were to use a self hosted or public analytics solution like umami or google analytics, do I then need to add a privacy/cookie policy to my site or it's always required to do so e...

A question for Kent about spending time outside of work to learn new skills, while putting family first. How I'm So Productive Zero to Sixty in Software Development: How to Jumpstart Your Career Leveling up your career while putting family first

To live load data when using a framework like Next. JS, I sometimes use swr or react query to do so. Since I am using the loaders in remix to initially load my data, how do I live load this data with remix, do I need to use swr/react-query with perhaps an api endpoint in my remix routes or is there a better way to fetch data from my remix loaders. remix-sse-live-viewers Live loading data with remi...

Do you recommend the use of VPN when developing applications or is it something that should be left to the company, if the company requires it then you use it else there's no significant need for it. Using VPN during software development

Wanted to know Kent's thoughts around the hate around React lately. Why is there so much hate regarding React lately?

Where do the red lines go when the file gets too big? todos.tsx When to break up a component into multiple components - Colocation Decomposing remix component

I was stuck being "mid" level developer from a long time and I would like to know how to become a senior developer. Jump from mid level to senior react developer

React app that uses React library and transpiling through webpack and babel. It works on chrome and Edge and not on IE 11. Remix Browser Support Remix Philosophy: Progressive Enhancement Babel present-env MDN Can I use... React app doesn't work on IE11

Hey, it's been 2 years I started using RTL instead of Enzyme and recently I read your article about it and shared on Slack and that generated a huge thread with no conclusion, that's why I've asked on Twitter and now I'm doing the same here. Thanks userEvent docs Using userEvent vs fireEvent

I was on the project with some really cool developers(ex Amazon) and I saw them using useMemo inside of the jsx, like this: So my question would be, do you think this is good practice or would you rather use React.memo for these kind of things.... Fix the slow render before you fix the re-render useMemo vs React. Memo when it comes to JSX

Do you have some thoughts you want to share about why you stopped asking for calls on https://kcd.im/calls? How to build a committed following

I am just curious if you have any good, high-quality materials I can learn from about Frontend Architecture. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) Learning Frontend Architecture