Michael Leners

Michael Leners

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Former physics instructor, recovering engineer, graduate student, Washington native, and "Iowa Captive". I love web development and am especially passionate about the intersection of UX and QA.

Docker Command Bonus: Dockerizing React Apps

Dec 29, 20202 min read

In a previous post on Dockerizing React Apps, I discussed a strategy for running React in a Docker container. In the scripts, I put local-react as the...

Conditional Rendering of Components in React

Dec 26, 20206 min read

I've been working through the Epic React course from Kent C. Dodd over this holiday season 🎄 It's interesting seeing how I code things while I "try...

JavaScript Promises: Alternative to then/catch

Dec 20, 20203 min read

I promise this won't be a long blog, but no guarantees against puns 😜 The promise is a prominent way to deal with asynchronous code in JavaScript....

How My Team Uses Cypress for End-to-End Testing

Dec 17, 202011 min read

This blog is part of a series on end-to-end (E2E) testing in Cypress. In this post, we will take a look at how our team uses Cypress to benefit our...

Creating Netlify Cloud Functions

Dec 13, 20208 min read

I began dabbling with cloud functions with AWS Lambda. That was when I started developing. Around the same time, I learned the difference between a...

Dockerizing React Apps

Dec 9, 20206 min read

Containerized development is hot 🔥 What makes these tools so popular? From my experience, containers: Make complex local environments quick and...