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Modular Programming with JavaScript

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Modular Programming with JavaScript

Overview of this book

Programming in the modular manner is always encouraged for bigger systems—it is easier to achieve scalability with modular programming. Even JavaScript developers are now interested in building programs in a modular pattern. Modules help people who aren’t yet familiar with code to find what they are looking for and also makes it easier for programmers to keep things that are related close together. Designing and implementing applications in a modular manner is highly encouraged and desirable in both simple and enterprise level applications. This book covers some real-life examples of modules and how we can translate that into our world of programming and application design. After getting an overview of JavaScript object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts and their practical usage, you should be able to write your own object definitions using the module pattern. You will then learn to design and augment modules and will explore the concepts of cloning, inheritance, sub-modules, and code extensibility. You will also learn about SandBoxing, application design, and architecture based on modular design concepts. Become familiar with AMD and CommonJS utilities. By the end of the book, you will be able to build spectacular modular applications in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Modular Programming with JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Review of Important JavaScript OOP Concepts
Index

A simple start to writing our unit tests


Writing unit tests is not about using the latest and greatest unit testing tools and libraries. It is simply about testing little pieces of the code in isolation. The simple fact which we should always keep in mind is that the main goal of unit testing is to ensure the proper functionality and integrity of our code. Even if you are not familiar with any unit testing tools, you can still write you own unit tests, using the skills that you already have in JavaScript.

However, as you will see later in this chapter, using third-party tools and frameworks can greatly help us to write better and more sophisticated tests.

For the rest of the chapter, we will target two of our sub-modules (CookieHandler and StorageHandler) and will write some simple unit tests for them. We will also explore how our modular architecture can help us write targeted and independent unit tests for each module.

Writing unit tests without any unit testing frameworks

While I don't recommend...