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`??` vs `||`: Why Your Zero Keeps Disappearing thumbnail

`??` vs `||`: Why Your Zero Keeps Disappearing

Running a quiz service, we got a complaint one day: “I just took the test — why does it say ‘No score’?” We checked. Their score was zero. The database clearly stored 0, the API returned 0 faithfully. The culprit was a single line in the UI code. javascript 라인 넘버 읽기: OFF 라인 넘버 읽기 기능 도움말 라인 넘버 읽기 기능 이 버튼은 스크린 리더 사용자를 위한 기능입니다. ...

Published date: 2026-07-14 · Reading time: 9 min · Word count: 1775 words · Author: Isaac
Mocking the Network with MSW — Isolating the API thumbnail

Mocking the Network with MSW — Isolating the API

This is Part 9 of the “Frontend Testing, Done Right” series. Browse the full series · Glossary The moment a component starts calling an API, tests get shaky. A slow server makes them slow, changed data breaks them, and offline they’re wiped out. MSW (Mock Service Worker) intercepts network requests at the boundary and returns prepared responses, solving the problem at its root. This one article covers installation, handlers, and simulating both success and failure. ...

Published date: 2026-07-14 · Reading time: 5 min · Word count: 2324 words · Author: Isaac
Testing Forms, Interaction, and State — with user-event thumbnail

Testing Forms, Interaction, and State — with user-event

This is Part 8 of the “Frontend Testing, Done Right” series. Browse the full series · Glossary A button isn’t really tested until you press it; an input, until you type into it. user-event is the member of the Testing Library family in charge of reproducing interaction — even a single click walks through focus changes and key-event order just like a real browser, closing the gap where “it works when a user does it, but not in the test.” In this article we build typing and clicking tests from scratch. ...

Published date: 2026-07-13 · Reading time: 6 min · Word count: 2745 words · Author: Isaac
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The Testing Library Philosophy — Querying Like a User

This is Part 7 of the “Frontend Testing, Done Right” series. Browse the full series · Glossary Testing Library is the de facto standard for component testing in React and beyond. But the real substance of this tool isn’t its API — it’s one philosophy. The moment you start testing components, temptations appear: “should I find it by class name? peek at internal state?” Testing Library answers firmly: do what the user does. In this article we’ll see what that philosophy means, the order for choosing queries, and why this approach is inseparable from accessibility — all while building a search component from scratch. ...

Published date: 2026-07-10 · Reading time: 7 min · Word count: 3154 words · Author: Isaac
mock, stub, spy — Understanding Test Doubles Properly thumbnail

mock, stub, spy — Understanding Test Doubles Properly

This is Part 6 of the “Frontend Testing, Done Right” series. Browse the full series · Glossary “I tested it with a mock” — that phrase actually bundles four different concepts (stub, spy, mock, fake) into one word. This single article sorts out those four terms, shows how one Vitest vi.fn() covers all of them, and settles the question of how far to go with faking. Sort it out once and your eye for reading and writing test code gets much sharper. ...

Published date: 2026-07-10 · Reading time: 12 min · Word count: 2504 words · Author: Isaac
TypeScript 7 Is Here — The 10x Native Compiler, and Whether You Should Switch Now thumbnail

TypeScript 7 Is Here — The 10x Native Compiler, and Whether You Should Switch Now

“Kicking off tsc and going for coffee” — every frontend developer has made that joke at least once. That joke may have just lost its punchline. On July 8th, 2026, Microsoft shipped TypeScript 7.0: the compiler and language service, ported whole to Go and running as a native binary. If you tried the preview under the name tsgo (@typescript/native-preview), this is its stable form — a preview that was already pulling 8.5M+ weekly downloads. Official numbers put full type checks on large projects at 8–12x faster. ...

Published date: 2026-07-09 · Reading time: 12 min · Word count: 2533 words · Author: Isaac
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Testing Async Code, Timers, and Errors

This is Part 5 of the “Frontend Testing, Done Right” series. Browse the full series · Glossary Real-world code waits. It waits for API responses; it waits for timers. That makes async testing the first wall most frontend developers hit — but the reason it feels hard boils down to a single question: “when do you verify?” Grade the answer sheet before the answer arrives, and you’re grading a blank page. This one article packs the complete toolkit for code that waits: Promise verification (resolves/rejects), fake timers, and the failure cases. ...

Published date: 2026-07-08 · Reading time: 9 min · Word count: 1721 words · Author: Isaac
Unit Testing Basics — Pure Functions, Edge Cases, and the AAA Pattern thumbnail

Unit Testing Basics — Pure Functions, Edge Cases, and the AAA Pattern

This is Part 4 of the “Frontend Testing, Done Right” series. Browse the full series · Glossary Unit tests are where all testing begins. You put one function in front of you and nail down “this input produces this output” — the smallest, fastest kind of verification there is. This one article takes you from what a unit test actually is, through pure functions, the AAA pattern, and edge cases, with real code all the way. ...

Published date: 2026-07-06 · Reading time: 11 min · Word count: 2286 words · Author: Isaac
What to Test, and How Much — The Trap of 100% Coverage thumbnail

What to Test, and How Much — The Trap of 100% Coverage

This is Part 2 of the “Frontend Testing, Done Right” series. Browse the full series · Glossary Last time we talked about why testing matters. Now for the practical question: “So… what do I test, and how much?” Time is finite, and you can’t test everything. This installment is really one question, answered in three pieces: how to pick the code that’s most worth testing what coverage numbers really mean — and where they lie the testing strategy we’ll use for our demo app A diagram contrasting a perfect coverage number with a test that verifies nothing — visited is not the same as verified What to test first Not all code carries the same weight. Top priority goes to code that changes often and hurts badly when it breaks. ...

Published date: 2026-07-04 · Reading time: 5 min · Word count: 972 words · Author: Isaac
Testing Terms, All in One Place — A Frontend Testing Glossary (Appendix) thumbnail

Testing Terms, All in One Place — A Frontend Testing Glossary (Appendix)

This is the appendix to the “Frontend Testing, Done Right” series. Whenever you hit an unfamiliar term in the series, come back here. Browse the full series Learning frontend testing means getting buried in unfamiliar words. How is a mock different from a stub? When do getBy and queryBy part ways? Why shouldn’t you take a coverage number at face value? This one page collects all of those terms — and each entry goes beyond “what it is” to “why it matters” and “when you’d use it.” ...

Published date: 2026-07-04 · Reading time: 16 min · Word count: 3311 words · Author: Isaac
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