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Test-Driven JavaScript Development

By : Ravi Kumar Gupta
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Test-Driven JavaScript Development

By: Ravi Kumar Gupta

Overview of this book

Initially, all processing used to happen on the server-side and simple output was the response to web browsers. Nowadays, there are so many JavaScript frameworks and libraries created that help readers to create charts, animations, simulations, and so on. By the time a project finishes or reaches a stable state, so much JavaScript code has already been written that changing and maintaining it further is tedious. Here comes the importance of automated testing and more specifically, developing all that code in a test-driven environment. Test-driven development is a methodology that makes testing the central part of the design process – before writing code developers decide upon the conditions that code must meet to pass a test. The end goal is to help the readers understand the importance and process of using TDD as a part of development. This book starts with the details about test-driven development, its importance, need, and benefits. Later the book introduces popular tools and frameworks like YUI, Karma, QUnit, DalekJS, JsUnit and goes on to utilize Jasmine, Mocha, Karma for advanced concepts like feature detection, server-side testing, and patterns. We are going to understand, write, and run tests, and further debug our programs. The book concludes with best practices in JavaScript testing. By the end of the book, the readers will know why they should test, how to do it most efficiently, and will have a number of versatile tests (and methods for devising new tests) to get to work immediately.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Test-Driven JavaScript Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Modernizr


Modernizr is an awesome JavaScript library for feature detection. It is great for detecting HTML5 and CSS3 features and is used widely. We are going to focus on Modernizr for feature detection in this chapter.

Downloading and setting up Modernizr

At the time of writing, Modernizr, Version 3, is the most stable version. Modernizr can be downloaded as two versions—development and production. Source code of Modernizr can be checked out from https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr at GitHub.

For the production version, Modernizr provides a custom build tool, which allows us to select only those features that we want to test. These features are divided into several sections such as CSS3, HTML5 features, and Modernizr methods and properties under options. There are almost 240+ options that are available to choose to build one consolidate file. Build tool is available at http://modernizr.com/download/.

Development version can be downloaded using the link https://modernizr.com/download?do_not_use_in_production...