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Break the Race: Easy Race Condition Detection for React
React Day Berlin 2023React Day Berlin 2023
31 min
Break the Race: Easy Race Condition Detection for React
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Race conditions can be complex to debug and reproduce, causing frustration for users. The speaker discusses examples of race conditions and ways to fix and avoid them. They demonstrate an example of an auto-completion field in React and how to handle race conditions in API calls. The speaker introduces the FastCheck framework for property-based testing to address race conditions and improve tests. Randomizing inputs and outputs can help uncover bugs specific to certain scenarios. The speaker also discusses mitigating race conditions in React and handling test overhead and reproducibility.