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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

Testing our components


Testing is one of the most important steps when you develop software applications. At this point, we are ready to start creating components, defining binding behaviors, and configuring our routes. All is okay, but how do we ensure that our components work as expected? We need to test each component before marking it as complete and ready for QA/Production environment.

With Aurelia's component tester, you'll be able to test your component in an isolated way, like on a mini Aurelia application. What to do when testing a component? Evaluate the expected data, and assert a response to data binding and behavior through the life cycle.

First of all, we need to install the aurelia-testing package:

 npm install aurelia-testing

This library is based on Jasmine, the popular BDD JavaScript testing framework that provides the test structure and assertions. If you generated your application with the Aurelia CLI, Jasmine should be included.

Once installed, you can start writing your...