Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
Most of the common PaaS platforms like OpenShift and Heroku deploy code based on a source in a git repo – you push your local repo containing source to the remote repo on the platform, the build is performed remotely and then deploys the built artifacts. What if you want to deploy an app that is …
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So far I’ve been using Jest with ES6 (see here), but to run Jest tests against React code using ES5, you might get errors when running your test and rendering the JSX. Per the Jest docs, install the required Jest dependencies: npm install –save-dev jest babel-jest babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-react react-test-renderer If you run ‘npm test’ at …
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I can’t help react to Microsoft’s new found love for Linux and Open Source with extreme suspicion. If you’ve been in the IT industry for a while then you’ll remember Steve Ballmer’s extreme vitriol for Linux, proclaiming “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches“. So where exactly …
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I don’t think I could ever do this to anyone, but this video set-up of a new employee being pranked on his first day with his new PC booted into text mode Open Solaris is pretty funny to watch his reactions.