I can’t quite believe it’s over a month already since Christmas day. Although I only need to step outside for a few moments to wish it was Summer already. I’m much happier coding in my shorts and t-shirt.
A number of people have asked for a suggested watching order / learning track, and with 50 courses to choose from, I can totally understand it can be hard knowing where to start. With this in mind, I’ve added a Learning Tracks page to the site.
This week saw three new videos added to the site.
Firstly we cover testing JavaScript’s Fetch, the nicer replacement to XMLHttpRequest. It baffles me why XML is uppercase, but Http is title cased. Anyway, fetch is nice to use, but testing can still be a little tricky.
To begin with, we cover the happy path, which gets our setup code out of the way. Seeing how things work when the everything is right in the world is a great way to start. But of course, once real users start tinkering with our systems, inevitably they will find new and baffling ways to destroy our good intentions. Which is why…
We also need to cover the “unhappy paths”. And in this case, testing that our code throws the expected exceptions is a little trickier than you might expect. It’s one of those problems that you might estimate at taking you a morning, but end up losing two days too – never fun explaining that in the daily stand up.
Fortunately help is at hand, and we will use a small snippet of code to ensure testing when things go wrong is that much easier.
When it comes to tracking down errors, of course it’s not just the client side that can go wrong. If you’ve worked with Symfony beyond the most basic of applications then more than likely you will have needed to log out additional information to help you debug. Monolog is the fantastic out-of-the-box logging solution in Symfony, and so…
In this video we look at 10 ways to improve your Symfony debug log output by making use of a variety of options and techniques that Monolog gives to us.
We start off with the basics here, but quickly cover the handler stack – including the rather brilliantly named fingers_crossed handler, which you will have seen in config_prod.yml – then onto channels, logging from console commands, and also how to log out to Graylog.
This video will be free to watch until next Friday, so be sure to set aside 10 minutes for this one.
Lastly, did you know you can keep track of the latest videos via an RSS reader? I have a full feed available to ensure you never miss a video.
Until next week, take care, and happy coding.
Chris
