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Development and testing trends, how-tos, and guides from the Reflect community.
Front-end Development
How-tos & Guides
5 min read
How to use Node.js modules in Deno
Due to its power and first-class support for Typescript, Deno has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. A common stumbling block for developers new to Deno is how to use Node.js packages in Deno apps. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to leverage the enormous ecosystem of code in the npm registry and use Node.js modules in your Deno applications.
Front-end Development
10 min read
Micro Frontends, are they the future of web development?
Web applications have advanced a lot over the last decade. They have advanced from a simple static page for your pet, to fully functional tools that allow you to connect with friends, buy books and even author content for the web. To allow for this advancement, the technology behind web applications has had to grow a lot. One of the most recent advancements in how we structure web applications is the concept of micro frontends. In this article we will build a web application and learn about micro frontends along the way.
End-to-end Testing
How-tos & Guides
6 min read
Setting up Selenium Grid for cross-browser testing
Selenium Grid is an open-source project that enables you to run Selenium tests across browsers on your own infrastructure. In this tutorial, we'll cover how to set up Selenium Grid to run a basic set of tests.
End-to-end Testing
How-tos & Guides
8 min read
Highlighting text in Cypress tests
Cypress does not have built-in support for testing workflows that require a user to highlight text on a page. This tutorial provides two workarounds that allow you replicate and test text highlighting in your Cypress tests.
End-to-end Testing
How-tos & Guides
6 min read
How to take a screenshot inside Selenium WebDriver
Learn how to take both full page screenshots as well as screenshots of individual elements inside your Selenium WebDriver tests.
End-to-end Testing
How-tos & Guides
8 min read
Waiting until elements are interactable in Selenium
Correctly detecting and waiting for asynchronous actions is one of the most effective ways for preventing test flakiness in Selenium. Here we'll cover various strategies for determining whether an element is ready to be interacted with, and highlight which strategy is most effective at reducing test flakiness.
End-to-end Testing
9 min read
The hidden dependencies in your regression tests
To create tests that you can depend on, isolate and manage the tests’ dependencies.
End-to-end Testing
6 min read
In Regression Tests, Conditionals = Complexity
The use of conditionals should be considered an anti-pattern in regression tests.
Front-end Development
12 min read
A practical, step-by-step guide to using Chrome's DevTools
The DevTools built into all modern browsers are an extension of the webapp development environment. We'll walk through a practical example of devtools usage which covers a number of core features.
End-to-end Testing
How-tos & Guides
5 min read
Using BiDirectional Protocol support in Selenium 4 to measure browser resource utilization
Selenium 4 added support to retrieve resource utilization information from the browser. This article discusses some potential applications for this feature, with examples written in Scala.

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