End-to-End Testing an Astro Site Against the Real Production Build
Why I run Playwright against astro preview instead of the dev server, and the pile of gotchas—WebKit, worker limits, analytics noise—I hit getting there.
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The Alpine Gotcha: Dockerizing a pnpm Monorepo
Reaching for the smallest base image felt responsible. Then pnpm needed a C toolchain, Wrangler needed a newer Node, and the "small" image cost me an afternoon.
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A Hybrid Biome + ESLint/Prettier Setup
I wanted Biome everywhere. Its .astro and .svelte support is still experimental, and I don't trust it with my markup yet. Here is the hybrid setup I landed on, and the composite lint script that ties it together.
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