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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

Summary


In this chapter, we explored the benefits that good testing brings to our company, team, products, and users. Good testing will always make our products better and our users happy.

We learned how to apply TDD to our software development process and the importance and impact it has on the quality of our apps. You should always remember that TDD is composed of three colored phases: the red phase, which makes your test fail; the blue phase, which makes your test pass; and lastly, the green phase, which refactors and cleans your code.

We also learned about the testing technologies that Aurelia uses for development and learned how to use them independently. Jasmine is the testing framework and Karma is used as the test runner.

We practiced with a real testing example of an Aurelia component and we explored some debugging options.

Now that we are in good shape and know how to style and test Aurelia applications, it's time to become real experts in creating Aurelia components. So, keep reading...