RR 391: Frontend Testing Like a Rubyist with Josh Justice

Panel: Dave KimuraCharles Max WoodNate Hopkins Special Guest: Josh Justice  In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Josh Justice who is a developer, writer, and speaker. Josh streams JavaScript and web development on Friday’s at 2:00 PM (ET) here! The panelists and the guest talk about Josh’s background and frontend testing in Ruby. Check it out!Show Topics:0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:04 – Chuck: Hi! Dave, Nate, and myself are on the panel and our special guest is Josh Justice! I am developing a show about developer freedom and it’s called The DevRev. It will be streamed through YouTube, and I will record Friday afternoons. Check out Facebook, too!2:11 – Josh: Thanks! I am happy to be here!2:18 – Chuck: Introduce yourself, please!2:24 – Josh: I have been a developer for about 14 years. I have used PHP and then got into Ruby and then frontend development.2:46 – Chuck: You work for Big Nerd Ranch in Atlanta?2:56 – Josh: Yep for the last 3-4 years!3:15 – Chuck: Can you introduce the topic?3:25 – The guest talks about Big Nerd Ranch and frontend development. Learn TDD is mentioned, too! Check it out here!  5:06 – Panel: How much bouncing do you do between React and Vue?5:11 – Guest.5:47 – Chuck: We need to get you on our podcast shows for React and Vue! It’s an approach that I am familiar with in Ruby – and Selenium what a pain!6:16 – Guest: I’ve had a good experience with Cypress, actually!7:47 – Guest: Panelist, can you share your experiences?7:57 – Panel: Not bad experiences with testing, but now I am trying to minimize my use with JavaScript.8:30 – Guest: I think there is a big push towards considering more server site rendering.9:35 – Panel: What’s your recommendation to setup Cypress? 9:40 – Guest: Their docs are really great! They had some conference talks on how to set it up!10:15 – Guest: Check out my talks about this topic. (Connect Tech 2018).10:29 – Panel: I think Cypress is a pretty cool solution but one thing that left me confused is that you have to have an environment that is already stood-up and running. Is that accurate or has that changed?11:00 – Guest: Can you clarify what you mean by a “running environment”?11:04 – Panelist clarifies. 11:44 – Guest: Luckily for me I have something to say b/c I tried a week ago!12:01 – Guest mentions Vue CLI 3.  14:38 – Panel: How can you test your code coverage? I want to know how much of my code coverage am I hitting? The applications are up and running, it’s not going through the files (per se), and is there anything that would indicate how good your coverage is with the Cypress test?15:10 – Guest: Let me as a follow-up question: How do you approach it on the frontend?15:24 – Panelist answers the guest’s question. 16:06 – The guest mentions