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JavaScript for .NET Developers

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
Book Image

JavaScript for .NET Developers

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Overview of this book

If you want to improve responsiveness or the UX in your ASP.NET applications, JavaScript can be a life saver. In an age where server-side operations have shifted to the client, being able to handle JavaScript with confidence and fluency is vital for ASP.NET developers. There’s no point trying to fight it, so start learning with this book. Make sure your projects exceed user expectations. Begin by getting stuck into the basics of JavaScript, and explore the language in the context of ASP.NET Core. You’ll then find out how to put the principles into practice, as you learn how to develop a basic ASP.NET application using Angular 2 and TypeScript. You’ll also develop essential skills required to develop responsive apps, with a little help from AJAX, ensuring that you’re building projects that can be easily accessed across different devices. With guidance on Node.js and some neat techniques to test and debug a range of JavaScript libraries in Visual Studio, you’ll soon be well on your way to combining JavaScript with ASP.NET in a way that’s capable of meeting the challenges of modern web development head-on.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Testing and Debugging JavaScript

In every software life cycle, testing and debugging play an important role. Thorough testing makes software flawless and good debugging techniques makes it easy to not only troubleshoot problems, but also helps to identify and fix any problems by reaching out to the exact point.

Testing is the core essence of creating any robust application. However, there are different practices and frameworks used by the application to serve particular objective, and the architecture varies as per the nature of the application. Therefore, sometimes it becomes difficult for a developer to test client-side code, for example, if an application contains some JavaScript code on a page itself, such as inline event handlers, make it tightly coupled with the page. On the other hand, even when modularizing the JavaScript code into different modules bring some test suite limitations and become harder to execute the testing process of an application.

Debugging is the process...