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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By : Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra
Book Image

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By: Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra

Overview of this book

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia begins with a review of basic JavaScript concepts and the structure of an Aurelia application generated with the Aurelia-CLI tool. You will learn how to create interesting and intuitive application using the Aurelia-Materialize plugin, which implements the material design approach. Once you fully configure a FIFA World Cup 2018 app, you'll start creating the initial components through TDD practices and then develop backend services to process and store all the user data. This book lets you explore the NoSQL model and implement it using one of the most popular NoSQL databases, MongoDB, with some exciting libraries to make the experience effortless. You'll also be able to add some advanced behavior to your components, from managing the lifecycle properly to using dynamic binding, field validations, and the custom service layer. You will integrate your application with Google OAuth Service and learn best practices to secure your applications. Furthermore, you'll write UI Testing scripts to create high-quality Aurelia Apps and explore the most used tools to run end-to-end tests. In the concluding chapters, you'll be able to deploy your application to the Cloud and Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to create rich applications using best practices and modern approaches.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Testing and Debugging

Testing is one of the most important phases of the development process. Whatever type of project you are working on, testing is key if you want to deliver applications with high quality and make your users happy.

Just imagine what would happen if your favorite taxi application makes your driver take you to the wrong place or the price of your trip is higher than it's supposed to be? This embarrassing bug will undoubtedly produce a series of catastrophic events that will damage the reputation of the application and, worse still, the company reputation.

Learning how to test our Aurelia applications and how to correctly apply the Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach will improve the quality of your applications, avoid embarrassing bugs, make your users happier, and make you a better developer. So, in this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Benefits of testing
  • TDD
  • Aurelia testing framework
  • Practicing testing
  • Debugging our code