Posts about Frontend

It is not everyday that you get to chat face to face with the creator of a highly relevant open source project. Accordingly, we were highly anticipating a certain visit in mid-October, 2018.

Sometimes, when I look back over the time I have spent working at trivago, I see how it changed my life and how lucky I have been to get the chance to work among this amazing community, to live and to learn with them. I look back and see a younger version of myself looking desperately for something different and, by just sheer luck, getting it.

It has been a couple of months since Kyle, author of the “You Don’t Know JS” series, visited our trivago headquarters and gave us a wonderful JavaScript workshop. It was such an enjoyable week, being able to meet Kyle in person and walk through his thinking behind the materials. trivago hosts internal workshops and meetups regularly and offers numerous learning opportunities to the employees throughout the year. This time, we decided to do it a little differently.

Testing your functionality is important, but what happens if other factors come into play? In this blog post we show how trivago handles non-functional testing for every commit and how we scaled it.

trivago believes that a sustainable Open Source ecosystem benefits developers, companies, and users alike.

A while ago we decided to Open Source our JavaScript framework, Melody, which we have been using since 2016. We designed Melody to be fast, memory efficient and to be flexible enough for the future.

Filtering is an important way to find what you’re really looking for, so why should we be okay with some users not being able to access them? We’re not, so we did something about it.

We were not as happy as we could be with out Cucumber test reporting solution - so we decided to build a new and shiny one from scratch.

How accessibility came from being neglected to being an important part of what we do at trivago