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Testing Next.JS with Cypress and Mock Service Worker

If you’re running a Next.js app and want to test it with Cypress you probably noticed a problem when it came time to test a server side rendered page. There’s no built in way to mock out requests made in getServerSideProps. When I ran into this and searched around for solutions I found this article that has a good explination of the problem (and diagrams), but I wasn’t satisfied with any of the solutions.… Read more »

Hex Map Area Borders

Today we’re going to learn how to create a nice border around the perimeter of an area in a hex map using Unity and a LineRenderer. Here I have it as a dotted purple line but you can make it look like anything you want with the flexibility of the line renderer! The foundation of the hex code here is adapted from the Hex Map Series by Catlike Coding which has been super helpful for getting started.… Read more »

Leaflet Zip Code Map Part 2

Leaflet Zip Code Map Part 1 In this part of the tutorial we’ll be focusing on what you need to do to get a front end set up to serve up the map and consume the wonderful zip code data. In case you missed it, here’s what we’re going for: HTML The html required on the page is almost as basic as it gets since most stuff is loaded in dynamically.… Read more »

Leaflet Zip Code Map Part 1

This is the first part of a two part series about how to set up leaflet maps to show zipcode areas with some extra data coming along for the ride allowing us to color the zip code areas based on demographics or any other reporting data. I did this using an ASP.NET MVC site and Web API with a Sql Server database. A database is required for this approach but there’s nothing stopping you from reimplementing this in your backend architecture of choice.… Read more »