Rabobank is one of the leading banks in the Netherlands and has big ambitions to fully digitise their business. To realise these ambitions Rabobank has over 100 development squads that develop customer facing frontend solutions. After many iterations of the Rabobank digital platform, the decision is made to move all development to a single monorepo. […]
Accessibility is a decisive tool to make the internet a more inclusive place, it is absolutely crucial and despite the popular belief that only a small user group is affected, it benefits every single one of us. The reality doesn’t yet reflect that, though – accessibility often just seems like an afterthought. I will show […]
Responsiveness to user interaction is crucial for our apps and you’ve probably heard about the amazing tools we have to measure web performance. Maybe you’ve measured some Web Vitals using Lighthouse, checked the cost of a package using Bundlephobia, or even rejected a PR that adds a massive dependency using size-limit. Unfortunately, users are still […]
“Who is Jason Keays and why do I never see him?” This question was asked in a meeting where we referenced a lot of keys in JSON files on the project. When you have to work with people with no technical background, it can bring some challenges along the way. Things that are familiar to […]
What if we can test UI components fast enough and as close as our users will use/see them? This is what component testing helps us to do. UI testing is very important. In many projects we use a “fake” environment to test rendering and user behavior on our apps. This is great to decrease the […]
Storybook is the industry standard UI development workshop for components and pages. It provides great value for development and documentation, and now you can use your favourite tools like Jest and Testing library to write tests in your stories that will run directly in the browser! Let’s explore all the testing possibilities in the next […]
This talk is about modernizing your API implementations with GraphQL. We will talk about the benefits of GraphQL and API query languages, how GraphQL subcriptions work and how they enable real-time data capabilities. We’ll also dive right into using AWS AppSync to build a robust, scalable GraphQL API that securely accesses and consolidates data from […]
At Jumbo Supermarkten we use Vue for our frontend development. To speed up application building, we’ve created and maintain a component library. Within our frontend chapter, we’re making a point of everybody being involved in the maintenance and development of the library. What did we do to facilitate this? And what problems did we need […]