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Outside-In React Development: A TDD Primer

Learn how to build React apps using outside-in test-driven development, including end-to-end tests with Cypress and unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library. Includes an extended exercise building two application features. See how outside-in TDD leads to a thorough test suite, better regression safety, and a faster development speed.

Outside-In React Development: A TDD Primer

Learn how to build React apps using outside-in test-driven development, including end-to-end tests with Cypress and unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library. Includes an extended exercise building two application features. See how outside-in TDD leads to a thorough test suite, better regression safety, and a faster development speed.

These are the top books on programming I’ve read. Each has majorly improved my quality of life as a programmer.

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Extreme Programming Explained

How can we write software in a way that is ready to flex with change, instead of treating change as an unexpected problem?
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

How can we write tests that ensure our system behaves as it should and that our code is easy to work with?
Object Thinking

Why are some developers drawn to statically-typed languages and upfront planning, and others drawn to dynamically-typed languages and agile methodologies?
Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby

How can you write software that stays easy to change over time? (The principles apply to any programming language, although non-object-oriented languages will take a bit more work to get there.)
Refactoring

How can you make improvements to software without having to do large, sweeping, risky changes?
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

What small decisions can we make arranging our code to make it easier to maintain? (The principles and way of thinking apply to any programming language.)
xUnit Test Patterns

What can you do when your tests are having problems and you aren't sure how to fix them?

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