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MEAN Cookbook

By : Nicholas McClay
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MEAN Cookbook

By: Nicholas McClay

Overview of this book

The MEAN Stack is a framework for web application development using JavaScript-based technologies; MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js. If you want to expand your understanding of using JavaScript to produce a fully functional standalone web application, including the web server, user interface, and database, then this book can help guide you through that transition. This book begins by configuring the frontend of the MEAN stack web application using the Angular JavaScript framework. We then implement common user interface enhancements before moving on to configuring the server layer of our MEAN stack web application using Express for our backend APIs. You will learn to configure the database layer of your MEAN stack web application using MongoDB and the Mongoose framework, including modeling relationships between documents. You will explore advanced topics such as optimizing your web application using WebPack as well as the use of automated testing with the Mocha and Chai frameworks. By the end of the book, you should have acquired a level of proficiency that allows you to confidently build a full production-ready and scalable MEAN stack application.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Automated Testing

As we come to the end of this book, we'll wrap up by discussing the details of working within an all JavaScript testing environment. While Angular-CLI features a robust built-in testing toolkit right out of the box, in this chapter we will explore how to use the Mocha test runner and Chai assertion library to run automated testing across the backend of our web application. We'll also explore how to hook additional testing tools, such as the ESLint JavaScript linter, into our testing framework.

The following are the recipes covered in the chapter:

  • Creating unit tests for Node.js using the Mocha testing library
  • Creating integration tests for Express REST APIs
  • Integrating an ESLint test suite into your Mocha tests
  • Cross-browser and device testing with BrowserSync