189: It's Gonna Work, Definitely, No Problems Whatsoever

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Steph Viccari to chat about Steph's recent experience working on the Hubspot API ruby wrapper as a client project. They discuss strategies for testing third-party APIs, focusing on VCR and some of the benefits and trade-offs inherent to that style of API testing. Following that they chat about using exceptions for control flow, digging into why this seems to be a common pattern in Ruby API wrappers, what the alternatives are, and even a quick tour to React-land where this pattern is being used for interesting effect.

• Hubspot ruby gem
• VCR
• Cucumber
• Mystery Guests
• Rspec mocks
• Faking APIs in Development and Staging
• Capybara Discoball
• Upcase - Testing Third Party APIs
• Fake stripe
• Principle of least surprise
• Time boxing
• JavaScript Promises
• React.Suspense
• Dan Abramov Introducing React Suspense at JSConf Iceland

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