Is Snapshot Testing Really Worth It?

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The idea of a snapshot testing is, let's say you have a component, or a page, or something like that. You render out that component and then every single time you run that test, the snapshot will check that that is the exact same h tumel as i was the last time around. Next question, from mran, is snapshot testing really worth it? They always break when changing something. Up dating it means just accepting the new changes too easily to blindly accept a new snapshot. It wastes more tie than gaining.

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about picking the right tech stack, whether useEffect is still useful, benefit to use uses setTimeout, and more!

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Show Notes

00:23 Welcome
02:39 What’s the best way of comparing the efficiency of object literals created from a factory function vs objects created by new’ing a class.
Perf.link
06:54 How can I always see the full signature in VS Code?
10:40 What’s your process for picking a stack when starting a project?
14:41 Sponsor: Linode
15:23 Is snapshot testing really worth it?
TS QuickFixes
20:54 What are your thoughts on ISR Incremental Static Regeneration?
25:20 Is useEffect public enemy #1?
Goodbye, useEffect: David Khourshid
29:02 Sponsor: LogRocket
30:17 Is there any benefit to use uses setTimeout instead of setInterval?
MongoDB
Prisma
37:13 HTML to PDF a great solution I use is gotenberg.dev
gotenberg.dev
40:12 Although async/await might make for code that is easier to grok, I find it worse for chaining functions.
Pipeline Operator proposal
45:07 How do you guys stay focused for meaningful periods of time?
48:36 How should code formatters be configured and combined?
Prettier
ES Lint
Editor Config
No-Sweat™ Eslint and Prettier Setup
51:56 What’s your opinion on the latest Sveltekit changes with load, file based routing, and more?
Major Svelte Kit API Change - Fixing load, and tightening up SvelteKit’s design before 1.0
Astro
Nano Store
55:53 Sponsor: Auth0
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