Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
September 11, 2023
In version 9.2.0 of Front Matter CMS, I wanted to add a status bar item to the editor that shows the Front Matter icon. To achieve this, the Visual Studio Code documentation explains you to add your icon as an icon font to the icon contribution point in your package.json file.
Read moreAugust 28, 2023
For developers leveraging GitHub Actions to automate workflows E2E tests, Playwright provides excellent documentation on its use with GitHub Actions. By default, the setup uses the HTML reporter, offering a detailed look at test results. However, I found myself longing for a more straightforward overview of these results. This led me to develop a GitHub Actions reporter.
Read moreAugust 25, 2023
When building applications, you can expect things to go wrong. For instance, calls you make to APIs like a server issue, incorrect formatted body, throttling, and much more. A great tool to locally test these unexpected scenarios is Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy which can be used for both Microsoft 365 APIs, but also for any other APIs.
Read moreAugust 24, 2023
In the past, I have written a couple of articles about end-to-end (E2E) testing your SharePoint/Microsoft Teams solutions with Cypress, Puppeteer, and Playwright. I was a big fan of Cypress, but I must admit that Playwright caught up and became my favorite tool for E2E testing. For me, the most significant advantage of Cypress was the visual UI for running your tests, but the main disadvantage was its use of an iframe, which caused issues for testing SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.
Read moreAugust 17, 2023
While configuring some end-to-end tests with Playwright, I wanted to achieve a visual comparison between the current run and the previous one. Playwright expects to have a snapshot available for its comparison. When I run this on GitHub Actions, the snapshots should be taken from my previous GitHub Actions workflow run.
Read moreJuly 22, 2023
I have always been adding my Visual Studio Code extension settings to the contributes.configuration object, but I was missing a way to organize the settings in multiple sections/groups. That way, the end user gets a better overview of all settings grouped by their category. When reading the VSCode contributes.configuration schema documentation, I spotted the following: “This section can either be a single object, representing a single category of settings, or an array of objects, representing multiple categories of settings.
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