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jQuery HOTSHOT

By : Dan Wellman
Book Image

jQuery HOTSHOT

By: Dan Wellman

Overview of this book

jQuery is used by millions of people to write JavaScript more easily and more quickly. It has become the standard tool for web developers and designers to add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser inconsistencies and reducing costly development time.jQuery Hotshot walks you step by step through 10 projects designed to familiarise you with the jQuery library and related technologies. Each project focuses on a particular subject or section of the API, but also looks at something related, like jQuery's official templates, or an HTML5 feature like localStorage. Build your knowledge of jQuery and related technologies.Learn a large swathe of the API, up to and including jQuery 1.9, by completing the ten individual projects covered in the book. Some of the projects that we'll work through over the course of this book include a drag-and-drop puzzle game, a browser extension, a multi-file drag-and-drop uploader, an infinite scroller, a sortable table, and a heat map. Learn which jQuery methods and techniques to use in which situations with jQuery Hotshots.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery HOTSHOT
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Running unit tests with QUnit


QUnit is the official test suite for jQuery and is included in the source that we cloned from Git earlier in the project. If we take a look in the test folder inside the jquery folder, we should find that there are a lot of unit tests written to test the different components that make jQuery.

We can run these tests against the individual components of jQuery in order to look at the environment that QUnit needs, and to see how easy testing JavaScript files using it can be. For this task we'll need to install a web server and PHP.

Note

For more information on QUnit, see the documentation at http://qunitjs.com.

Prepare for Lift Off

Mac developers should already have everything required in order to run QUnit through a web server, because Mac computers come with Apache and PHP already installed. Windows developers will probably have some setup to do however.

There are two options for the web server in this case, Apache or IIS. Both support PHP. Those developers wishing...