Khalil Stemmler | Become a confident crafter. Learn to write testable, scalable TypeScript.

I help coders master the essential 80-20 of software design, architecture & testing. Learn to write scalable testablesoftware.

Mostly using TypeScript & Node.js, I create courses, books, and articles on advanced front-end and back-end topics like front-end architecture, Domain-Driven Design, effective object-oriented design, and Enterprise Node.js.

Recent Articles, letters & posts

"Tests Are a Waste of Time"Testing

Oh, boy.

3 Steps to Solve Most Design Problems | How to Find Abstractions Effectively Software Design

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You can solve nearly any design problem by getting clear on the responsibilities, assigning them to appropriate roles, and figurin...

Object Stereotypes Object-Oriented Design

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The six object stereotypes act as building blocks - stereotypical elements - of any design.

98% of Developers Use React as a Framework, Not a Library Frontend

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React is a view layer library but most developers use it as a framework. Let's look into why that is and the implications of it.

Non-Functional Requirements (with Examples)Object-Oriented Analysis

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Non-functional requirements are quality attributes that describe how the system should be. They judge the system as a whole based ...

Responsibility-Driven Design Object-Oriented Design

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Responsibility-Driven Design is the influential object-oriented design method that presents an effective way to turn requirements ...

What are Dependencies, Composition, Delegation, and Aggregation in Object-Oriented Programming?Object-Oriented Programming

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The four principles of object-oriented programming (abstraction, inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism) are features that -...

4 Principles of Object-Oriented Programming Object-Oriented Programming

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The four principles of object-oriented programming (abstraction, inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism) are features that -...

Is DDD Overrated? | Domain-Driven Design Domain-Driven Design

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DDD is one particular approach to software design. While highly influential and transformational for developers new to software de...

How to Test Code Coupled to APIs or Databases Test-Driven Development

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In the real-world, there's more to test than pure functions and React components. We have entire bodies of code that rely on datab...

Enforcing Coding Conventions with Husky Pre-commit Hooks Tooling

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In this guide, we'll learn how to setup Husky to prevent bad git commits and enforce code standards in your project.

Domain-Driven GraphQL Schema Design using Event Storming GraphQL

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A GraphQL schema is a declarative, self-documenting, organization-wide API. It's pretty important to spend a little bit of time on...

How Apollo REST Data Source Deduplicates and Caches API calls [Deep Dive]GraphQL

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Apollo's REST Data Source does a lot more than you'd think behind the scenes, and that's why it's recommended instead of using a w...

How to Setup a TypeScript + Node.js Project TypeScript

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In this guide, we walk through the process of creating a TypeScript project from scratch with cold-reloading, and scripts for buil...

Where Do Domain Events Get Created? | Domain Driven Design w/ TypeScript Domain-Driven Design

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In this post, I explain how good ol' fashioned encapsulation + TypeScript getters and setters enable us to effectively create Doma...

Recent Blogs

How to Find and Kill a Background Node Process

Last updated Nov 3rd, 2022

I'm sure you've run into this issue before. You try to a project up but you get an error that looks something like the following: What's…

98% of Developers Use React as a Framework, Not a Library

Last updated Sep 4th, 2022

What’s the difference between a framework and a library? A framework is something that you plug your code into. A library is something that…

How to Setup a TypeScript + Node.js Project

Last updated Aug 29th, 2019

We talk about a lot of advanced Node.js and TypeScript concepts on this blog, particularly Domain-Driven Design and large-scale enterprise…

What Is Hashing?

Last updated May 10th, 2022

Hashing is a technique used to convert a key into another value (typically for cryptographic or data storage purposes). It works by running…

Recently Edited Wikis

Stateful Tests

Last updated Nov 26th, 2022

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Stateful tests are tests against state machines. Ask: "are we testing a transition from one state to another?" or are we just testing "input/output".

Collaboration

Last updated Aug 4th, 2022

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An interaction between objects or roles (or both)