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Isomorphic JavaScript Web Development

By : Tomas Alabes, Konstantin Tarkus
Book Image

Isomorphic JavaScript Web Development

By: Tomas Alabes, Konstantin Tarkus

Overview of this book

<p>The latest trend in web development, Isomorphic JavaScript, allows developers to overcome some of the shortcomings of single-page applications by running the same code on the server as well as on the client. Leading this trend is React, which, when coupled with Node, allows developers to build JavaScript apps that are much faster and more SEO-friendly than single-page applications.</p> <p>This book begins by showing you how to develop frontend components in React. It will then show you how to bind these components to back-end web services that leverage the power of Node. You'll see how web services can be used with React code to offload and maintain the application logic. By the end of this book, you will be able to save a significant amount of development time by learning to combine React and Node to code fast, scalable apps in pure JavaScript.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Tests


Testing is a vital part of the development of any serious application. Isomorphic applications do not differ from this idea.

Testing comes in different forms, some of them are:

  • Unit testing
  • Integration testing
  • Functional testing
  • System testing
  • Stress testing
  • Performance testing
  • Usability testing
  • Acceptance testing

We can also represent them in a diagram as follows:

Although we won't cover all of these in this chapter, we will cover Unit testing, functional testing, and integration testing. Integration testing could be included in the same quadrant as functional testing, as it is also functional but between components or systems.

It's not that the ones we are covering are the most important ones or anything like that, but they are the most popular types of tests that developers write. Others, as the diagram represents, run by tools or manually by people.

Let's start testing!

Unit testing React with Mocha, Sinon, Chai, jsdom, and Enzyme

The first line of tests for an application is the unit tests....