Database Ids are used for internal purposes by the database as primary key, foreign key, and/or indexing. Ideally, we don’t want to display this column in our applications. As a result, we use models to map the relevant data. For example, a student table might contain: Id, studentCode,

For us Software Developers, researching on technical QA sites like StackOverflow is something we do almost daily, irrespective of our years of experience. Sometimes, the answer you're seeking lies just in front. Other times, you need to endless try every solution and what's recommended in the comments to achieve your

In this post, I share my top lessons learnt writing unit tests with Mocha, Chai and Sinon. Mocha is a test runner, Chai is an Expectation library and Sinon helps with test doubles such as stubs and mocks. A more popular alternative nowadays is Jest, which is easier and simpler

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Working on an in house eCommerce application - that enables potential customers to buy products online - I am assigned a task whereby the date for a column is always two hours early, albeit only for a specific flow. If the same column value is used elsewhere, there is no

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Unit TestingUnit testing is important for developing reliable applications. For me, the best benefit is when you modify codes either to remove bugs or to add new features, you already know if something is broken. Obviously doing integration tests is more useful than unit tests as the later abstracts and

How to relate the similar model in a hierarchy?

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