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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

Benefits of testing


Making testing part of our development process comes with a lot of benefits in every layer of our project. Before we start writing code to test our application, let's review the benefits that good testing brings to:

  • The development team
  • The project
  • The organization
  • The users

For the development team

If you work in a team with multiple members, you might have experienced that bad moment when a member pushes some changes and the application does not work as expected. Not only that, if the team does not have a mechanism to avoid changes that can break, someone else's code might cause conflict and decrease the quality of our applications.

Applying testing enables a mechanism that helps us avoid potential bugs in the code. It is recommended that you write test scripts for all the components into the application. The code coverage percentage is an indicator of how much testing the development team has written for the application. It is recommended to have a 100 percent coverage; with...