End-to-end testing has traditionally been a source of frustration for developers - flaky tests, complex setup, and poor debugging experiences have made it a necessary evil rather than a productive part of the development workflow. With the rise of modern testing frameworks like Playwright, developers are discovering that E2E testing can actually be reliable, fast, and even enjoyable. The integration of AI capabilities is further revolutionizing how we write, maintain, and debug tests. In this episode we welcome Google Developer Expert and Principal Technical PM at Microsoft, Debbie O'Brien, to explore the current state of Playwright and its evolving ecosystem. Between juggling twins under 2, Debbie shares insights on what makes Playwright different, the latest features transforming the testing landscape, and how AI is being integrated to make testing more intelligent and efficient. You can expect to learn why Playwright is becoming the go-to choice for modern web testing and how to leverage its powerful features in your projects.

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Client rendered web apps are not generally not indexable by Google Bot and others for extracting on-page content and optimizations for ranking high in the search engine results page. The result is that many organizations use technologies like WordPress, Astro, and others, for a marketing presence on the web, avoiding frameworks like Angular and React due to this limtation. With the maturing of Server-Side Rendering (SSR) in Angular, more developers are building both their interactive web apps and their more traditionally static market web properties with Angular (and React with RSC). In this episode we welcome Google Developer Expert, and open source contributor, Jeff Whelpley to break it all down. You can expect to learn how Angular with SSR is an excellent technical choice for optimizing your web app for Search Engine Optimization.

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Our beloved former host, Jay Bell, stopped by this week to share what he’s learned about using GraphQL to speed up development and keep code quality on point. Always a blast having him back!
https://graphql.org/learn/
https://www.apollographql.com/
https://the-guild.dev/

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Today Michelle Frost from JetBrains joins Jan and Q to explore the challenges and opportunities of integrating AI tools directly into your IDE, discuss real-world scenarios around trust, transparency, and skill-building, and unpack what “responsible AI use” looks like.

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It’s not everyday your favorite JavaScript framework releases its twentieth version! Join us with Minko as we find out what features graduate to stable, what changes we can expect, and more!! goo.gle/angular-v20

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We talked about SSR here before. This week we sat down with Brygida and continued this conversation, covering some more of the in-depths of SSR and what it means for you and your team!

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Chau and Jan sit down and talk about the "TYPE" in TypeScript because Chau comes across an amazing talk Kris Jenkins called Communicating in Types. Chau shares about his mistakes with error handling patterns with Remix in TypeScript. Jan seems to enjoy it and we think you will enjoy it too.

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Testing your code should not be painful and it shouldn't set you up for painful refactors down the road. Our guest Younes Jaaidi shares his stratgey for writing tests that flips the way we think about writing test AND code on it's head.

Younes' cookbook:  Younes' Cookbook

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We all hear about AI every single day, but what are AI Agents and how are they used? Join us today as we talk with Rizel Scarlett from Block!

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Cypress is a fantastic tool for E2E, but also component testing. In this episode we sat down with Mark Noonan, product manager at cypress. Other than Cypres we also extensively talked about testing accessibility, you don't want to miss that!

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Cypress Accessibility product page
UI Coverage
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Angular SSR has come a long way since the destructive hydration days, it's easier than ever to spin up a new ssr app or even add ssr to an existing app! Join us as we interview Soumaya Erradi about getting into SSR, what the best new features are, and even how to get started debugging!

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Hybrid Rendering Guide
NG Baguette Conf
 
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