This isn’t a Nuxt testing issue; it’s a Vue testing issue. All the same, it’s going to affect people working in Nuxt as well. However, whenever you have a Vue (rather than a Nuxt) testing issue, the answer is likely to be in the excellent book “Testing Vue.js applications” by…

Using MSW The most common answer to the problem of how to test communication with the backend is to mock fetch or axios or whatever library you use for making http requests. However, StackOverflow user jonrsharpe proposes a better method: use msw, the Mock Service Worker. It works by essentially creating a…

I wanted to test this loggedOnUser() function: So at first I tried this: Unfortunately this fails with a loud bang. It isn’t even able to mount the component. The reason is that the component needs to use loggedOnUser() during mounting, and this.$store is undefined. When Nuxt runs normally…

On 23 March, a number of organizations and individuals signed an open letter asking to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions. It also asks the FLOSS community to boycott the Free Software Foundation. Dear signatories, I am very sad about the letter, and it doesn’t have much to…

Do you ever have trouble with encodings? I used to in the past, but now I rarely do, because I do a simple thing. While knowing the things I explained in part 1 and part 2 of this series is necessary, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to fix problems, such…

As we saw in part 1 of this series, each program reads stuff from input and writes stuff to output. Whenever it reads strings of characters in the input, these strings are encoded in a certain encoding such as UTF-8. The program must decode these strings into an internal representation…

Has a UnicodeEncodeError ever got on your nerves? I think it has happened to pretty much everyone. I thought it’s a good time to start demystifying this mystery, and to have fun while doing it. You are probably familiar with the famous hello program, which does nothing but print “Hello…

This is an interview I took from Estonian Django developer Rivo Laks about Docker. Recorded in DjangoCon EU 2017, Florence, Italy. A: Hello everyone, this is Antonis from djangodeployment.com. The date is 7 April 2017 and I am in Florence, Italy, at the European Django conference. I’m sitting with Rivo…

This is an interview I took from Django core developer Andrew Godwin about deployment. Recorded in DjangoCon EU 2017, Florence, Italy. ANT: Hello everyone! This is Antonis from djangodeployment.com. It’s 5 April 2017 and I am at the European Django Conference in Florence. I am sitting with Andrew Godwin, who…