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5 Projects You Can Build To Become a Better Web Developer

Liviu Lupei on August 14, 2020

I'm Liviu, and I work as a Solutions Architect at Endtest. Sometimes we end up working on the same boring component. It's time to get creative a...
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Matthew Clark

This is awesome, thank you! Im always stuck on ideas for side-projects that aren't basic CRUD apps. This list gave me some great inspiration to build something different 👌

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Liviu Lupei

You're welcome. Glad to hear this list inspired you.

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Russ Edwards

Thanks for being honest about your job being at Endtest. It actually made me want to check it out more.

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Russ Edwards

So I looked at the pricing - that is steep. But if I were using this for a business, it would be possibly worth it because testing like this is so important, and can be difficult to set up properly. I've seen Selenium used in the past, and I've used Puppeteer + Jest to set up end to end testing myself.

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Liviu Lupei

The Why Endtest? section explains why are we charging for a product like Endtest when there are open source options out there such as Selenium.

The main idea is that Endtest is a cloud platform, it includes a cross-browser cloud infrastructure that you can run your tests on, functionalities to access emails and SMS messages during your tests, an API and many other things.

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Liviu Lupei

Hi Russ, I'm glad to hear that.

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Haiz Studio

Liked it

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Liviu Lupei

I'm happy to hear that.

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Michael Parkadze

Very thoughtful ideas indeed, thank you :)
Have you got any tips on building a complete CI/CD pipeline?

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GanganiSoN

Liked it.🤩🤩

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Liviu Lupei

Nice! Glad to hear that you liked it.

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Tyson Jouglet

When not signed in, things look pretty funky in firefox dev.