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Svelte with Test-Driven Development

By : Daniel Irvine
Book Image

Svelte with Test-Driven Development

By: Daniel Irvine

Overview of this book

Svelte is a popular front-end framework used for its focus on performance and user-friendliness, and test-driven development (TDD) is a powerful approach that helps in creating automated tests before writing code. By combining them, you can create efficient, maintainable code for modern applications. Svelte with Test-Driven Development will help you learn effective automated testing practices to build and maintain Svelte applications. In the first part of the book, you’ll find a guided walkthrough on building a SvelteKit application using the TDD workflow. You’ll uncover the main concepts for writing effective unit test cases and practical advice for developing solid, maintainable test suites that can speed up application development while remaining effective as the application evolves. In the next part of the book, you’ll focus on refactoring and advanced test techniques, such as using component mocks and writing BDD-style tests with the Cucumber.js framework. In the final part of the book, you’ll explore how to test complex application and framework features, including authentication, Svelte stores, and service workers. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to build test-driven Svelte applications by employing theoretical and practical knowledge.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Learning the TDD Cycle
8
Part 2: Refactoring Tests and Application Code
16
Part 3: Testing SvelteKit Features

Thinking ahead with some up-front design

If you imagine that we are a team of developers embarking on a new project, it would be very unlikely that we’d start a project without a project brief – you can’t just start writing tests with no purpose.

The goal of this section, therefore, is two things:

  • Discuss, at a high level, what we’ll build in the first part of the book
  • Learn just enough so that we can write our first failing test

The Birthdays application

We will build a web application called Birthdays that manages a list of people and their birthdays.

Figure 2.2 shows this application in action. The main page is a list of birthdays that have been stored. At the bottom there’s a form to add a new birthday, which is stored as a person’s name (just a single text field) and their date of birth.

Figure 2.2 – The Birthdays application

Figure 2.2 – The Birthdays application

The user accesses this application by navigating...