Ilyas' blog
Latest Posts
-
Testing the Behavior of a GraphQL Schema
I submit a PR that adds a new resolver to my GraphQL schema. My teammate tells me they’ve merged and deployed it. But when I try to access the new resolver, it isn’t reachable, and I can’t figure out why. I check the infrastructure test and see that the schema has changed - but my resolver is missing. I start losing my mind.
-
Test-Driven Education
In a recent discussion with one of my mentors in full-stack web development, I was explaining how I learned certain frameworks and libraries. After seeing my approach, he remarked, “This looks like… Test-Driven Education.”
-
Overcoming the Struggles of Naming Variables
While contributing to the obsidian-tasks project with Clare Macrae, I was introduced to two powerful concepts that helped me tackle one of the hardest problems in programming - naming variables.
-
Data flow approach to full stack web-development
The way I am developing features for full stack applications has a pattern. I’m pretty sure that I’m not inventing anything new, this is more of an exercise for me to bring clarity to myself first, but maybe someone can find this helpful too.
-
Automated and versioned type importing from GraphQL schema
While recently working on a GraphQL project I had a task where the schema (part of the Infrastructure-as-Code) had to be exported to the frontend and the backend in TypeScript.