DEV Community: Austin Baune

What tools are you using to test cross browser?

Austin Baune — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:40:47 +0000

I'm curious what tools people are using to help them test cross browsers. Have looked into BrowserStack and VMs, but not super pleased with either of those solutions.

TypeOf Array is Gotcha!

Austin Baune — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:35:13 +0000

Today I was fooled by a common gotcha in Javascript where the type of an Array is an Object. Duh. I know Arrays are just objects, but just goes to show that gotchas can get anyone.

In an attempt to help my pride please share some other common gotchas (in Javascript or any language) that you've come across that maybe tripped you up for a bit; even if it hurts inside to admit :).

Are you still happy with the decision to use TypeScript?

Austin Baune — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 03:19:43 +0000

Thinking on slowly moving a large scale project over to TypeScript and curious if those that have done the same are still happy with the switch or if there are any cautionary tales before committing to TypeScript.

The main concern is that the overhead of defining types for everything (interfaces, objects, etc) is hard to do well, can lead to code bloat, causes too many workarounds, and provides a false sense of safety.

Would love to hear any success or horror stories that have come with a large code base moving over to TypeScript.