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Strategies for migrating from GitHub to GitLab

Ooh, that moment when you decide to move to GitLab ❤️ It's all great, until you realize there are all these loose ends you need to think about 🙈 * will the git commit authors be kept correctly after the import? * can I migrate issues / pull requests ? * can I just stop the existing

Using multiline strings in GitLab YML file

Sometimes your script is too long and it doesn't fit on one line: script: - docker run --name build-container --tag gitlab:demo --workdir /project --build-arg SOME_VAR=123 custom-image . It would be nice to be able to split this on multiple lines, just like you can do on the shell

Keep authors when importing from GitHub to GitLab

I recently migrated a repository from GitHub to GitLab and noticed that all pull requests and all issues are assigned to me (the user that triggered the import), instead of the actual authors in GitHub! What happened? It seems that GitLab matches users based on their email addresses and you

Sync mirrored GitLab repository automatically on every push to GitHub

Did you successfully setup pull mirroring between GitHub and GitLab, but are disappointed to see changes only get synced every 30 minutes? Luckily, GitLab does support automatically pulling on every push to GitHub, it's just a bit hidden in their docs 😅 In my case, I setup Gitlab as CI/CD

Do "dependencies" and "devDependencies" matter when using Webpack?

When using Webpack to bundle your application for production, where you put your dependencies in package.json doesn't matter - as Webpack will simply follow all import statements, starting with the entryPoint. So what do you do? Can you just put your dependencies anywhere? Well, yes :) Here are 3 common

How to upgrade a yarn package to the latest version

It's happening again. You know you need to upgrade a package, but you're not sure what version is the latest and whether it will break your code or not 🙈 Let's walk through upgrading @storybook/react for a project. First, check where you stand What version are you at? What's the

What options do you have for deploying a frontend-only React app to production?

If you’ve ever wondered how to deploy your React app once it’s ready, you probably know that figuring this out can become confusing really fast. Most articles go over detailed instructions on how to configure nginx, how to configure reverse proxies. But do you really need any of