Cypress

We use Cypress because it's made browser testing simple and fast. The speed of both writing and executing the tests means that we're able to gain good coverage with minimal effort.

By building out browser tests we've been able to refactor large parts of the application and have a good degree of faith that everything is working. Next step is going to be adding Percy into the mix.

Cypress Browser Testing tool that becomes popular recently. Looking forward to exploring it

I use Cypress for testing apps developed with Javascript front end frameworks because it provides stable tests. A benefit is that it's fast and has great documentation, but the killer is how well it "just works" with frameworks like angular and react where in the past I've struggled webdriver due to inconsistent network latency in commands.

I just finished the very first version of my new hobby project: #MovieGeeks. It is a minimalist online movie catalog for you to save the movies you want to see and for rating the movies you already saw. This is just the beginning as I am planning to add more features on the lines of sharing and discovery

For the #BackEnd I decided to use Node.js , GraphQL and MongoDB:

1. Node.js has a huge community so it will always be a safe choice in terms of libraries and finding solutions to problems you may have

2. GraphQL because I needed to improve my skills with it and because I was never comfortable with the usual REST approach. I believe GraphQL is a better option as it feels more natural to write apis, it improves the development velocity, by definition it fixes the over-fetching and under-fetching problem that is so common on REST apis, and on top of that, the community is getting bigger and bigger.

3. MongoDB was my choice for the database as I already have a lot of experience working on it and because, despite of some bad reputation it has acquired in the last months, I still believe it is a powerful database for at least a very long list of use cases such as the one I needed for my website

When I saw the founders of Cypress introduce it in some conference I knew I found the tool we needed to start writing E2E testing. What I like about it is that it provides a comprehensive solution for the whole lifecycle of writing E2E tests for your application, from the API you need to write the tests to showing you why they fail. It's also nice that other tools/services in the testing space, like Percy, integrate with them now.