In this post, I will show you how to get code coverage reports from your Playwright tests in your SvelteKit app. So let’s imagine we are starting with the basic SvelteKit template. First, we need to install: npm i -D vite-plugin-istanbul We need the vite plugin to instrument our code using Istanbul. Istanbul is a tool which allows us to instrument our code such that it can determine which lines were covered by our tests. ...
TIL: How to Load Authenticate State in Playwright In this post, I will quickly show you how you can reduce boilerplate code to log in to your app in Playwright tests. Log in to our app is a very common action that will likely be required in most of our tests. You can read this documentation here, which will explain how you can set this up. However, what do you do if you want to say test the login flow or the register flow? ...
TIL: How to fix structuredClone to work on Netlify SvelteKit Site Recently I was working on my SvelteKit site and added some code like so to my hook.server.ts: try { if (event.locals.pb.authStore.isValid) { await event.locals.pb.collection("users").authRefresh(); event.locals.user = structuredClone(event.locals.pb?.authStore.model); } } catch (err) { console.log("failed to refresh auth", err); event.locals.user = undefined; event.locals.pb.authStore.clear(); } I needed to add the structuredClone function so that only POJO (plain old javascript objects) would get stored in the event. ...
TIL: How to Autofocus on Inputs in Svelte In this post, I will show you how you can autofocus on input that is in a child component. So in my use case, I want the user to click a button to add a “collection” and then it will show the input and immediately focus on it. Which looks something like this: So how can we do this? Let’s say we have a child component called Input. ...
In this post, I will show you how you can update your GitLab CI pipeline with the status of your Netlify deploys. As it is quite nice to have everything in one place if our CI pipeline passed or failed. I have spoken about this in a previous article, how you might go about setting up merge request preview environments with Netlify. This can be set up to also leave comments as shown above, and notify us if our website deployed successfully. ...
TIL: How Includes, Extends work with TS Config (with SvelteKit) I have recently been creating an app with SvelteKit and Typescript. I noticed all of a sudden Typescript and VS Code not playing nice with each other. It wouldn’t show me the types of variables that I knew it was showing me before. So I started to investigate and work out what was wrong. I was getting locals with a type any: ...
In this post, we will go over how we can auto-sort our imports in our svelte files. To do this we will be using eslint and the eslint-import-plugin plugin. If you’re anything like me you like have ordered imports, rather than random imports that can be hard to make sense of. In Python we have isort in golang we have goimports. In JavaScript we can use eslint with the above plugin. ...
In this post, I will go over how you can use the have I been pwned (hibp) API to improve UX 1 in our registration flow in our SvelteKit app. When the user signs up we can check if that password has been compromised in a previous data breach (on another site). Then we can prompt the user to enter another password. This will help avoid users using simple & common passwords like password11. ...
In this post, we will go over how you can test your SvelteKit app on your Android device in Firefox. If you’re like me you are building an app that you want users to use on both normal PCs (laptops, Desktop) and their smartphones. But the question arises how can we debug our app on a smartphone? One way to achieve this is to use Firefox and remote debugging, you will need to connect your smartphone via USB to your device running the SvelteKit app i. ...
Out of date This article maybe a bit out of date as PocketBase is adding new features and deprecating old functions. If you encounter an issue with the setup see this issue by Dominick Hi everyone, I’ve been building a new bookmarking app, using SvelteKit and PocketBase. PocketBase, is an open-source backend, that we need to self-host 1. It is written in Golang, think of it similar to Firebase or Supabase. ...
TIL: How to Deploy a SvelteKit site on Netlify So you have a SvelteKit site you want to deploy to Netlify how can we do that? First, go about setting up a site like normal! In my case, I am going to import an existing site from Gitlab. Netlify In the build settings we want the following settings: Branch Adjust the branch to whatever your main branch is i.e. the branch you want to deploy from. ...