Did you know that dev containers can have their own private Visual Studio Code extensions? By understanding some of the life cycle of the container, it’s possible to create and use extensions that are designed to support a specific dev container or Codespaces environment.

Continuing the topics from my last post, this week I want to offer a deep dive into the lifecycle of a Jest TestEnvironment by exposing the events that are raised when tests are run. I’ll also explore some of the details that are included with each event.

I needed a way to implement integration tests that would allow me to ensure that I could clean up the emulators I was using after each test cycle. Jest Test Environments provided a powerful way to do this, and TypeScript makes it easy to do (aside from a few quirks).

GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) helps teams to shift left and secure their development practices. But what do you do when its process its processes and practices doesn’t quite fit your team’s approach? In this post, we’ll look at how to use GitHub Probot to implement your own process in a GitHub-native way.

Developers usually want to be able to directly connect to a system, start the debugger, and step their way through the code. Being able to log into a machine and debug is the way most of us learn to troubleshoot and fix issues. But what if you can’t do that? And what if I told you there’s a better way to debug?