My favorite unit test tech stack for .Net15 years ago, C# did not have a large variety of unit test frameworks and supporting libraries. That has changed in the meantime. The community has grown considerably and so has the range of libraries and tools that can be used for unit tests. While ...Feb 27, 2023·4 min read
Why you should automate your development environment setupSetting up a development environment for a new project is not one of the most popular tasks. As a new developer in the project, you don't know the environment and have to work through pages and pages of documentation until your own development enviro...Jun 23, 2022·4 min read
A step closer towards micro-frontendIn my previous post, I described our way to build a library to share layout, styles, and components in the user interface of our self-contained systems architecture. This helped us a lot because it reduced the coupling of the shared code to the appli...Jun 13, 2022·5 min read
Sharing UI components in Self-Contained systemsIn my current project, we use Self-Contained systems to modularize large web applications into multiple applications. We were facing the question of how we should share code across our applications in the system. The drivers for building self-contain...May 30, 2022·3 min read
A recipe to make large web applications fit for the futureI have been working on some projects, where we replaced 10 to 20-year-old enterprise applications like customer portals or internal business applications. Actually, I found this very impressive since those applications have been running for more than...May 16, 2022·4 min read
Leveraging existing libraries to write a console applicationSmall console applications are handy and quite common in software projects to solve infrastructural problems which are not easy maintainable with shell scripts. For example I often use DbUp to migrate SQL databases. It is a great library, but provide...Jun 24, 2021·5 min read
Async file upload with NextJSI'm currently playing around with NextJS. My background is clearly in the Microsoft environment and for a few years Angular, so I practice web development with TypeScript. I had a hard time when I tried to implement a file upload with a NextJS API en...Jun 3, 2021·3 min read