In our last article, we would have tested basic HTTP requests and dictated how the response would look. However, many unexpected things can happen when sending a request. We need to handle these situations so that our application doesn't crash and th...
It won't be much of a Web Application if it doesn't make HTTP requests, does it? However, it's easy to forget that these need to be tested as well! In this article, I'll cover how to unit test HTTP requests in your Angular Application so you can hav...
Angular is a popular framework for building rich UIs and high-performance Web Applications. It's also very opinionated in its code structure, meaning that the framework prefers things to be done "the angular way". Part of this means including Angular...
If you're an Angular developer, chances are that you've heard of Angular Material. If not, then that's okay, I'm here to guide you. Angular Material is a component library that follows the Google Material Design Spec. Buttons, tabs, form fields and ...
In our last article here, we went through the basic structure of an Angular Unit Test and went on to test services. In this article, I want to show how to connect your service to a component and how to properly test this from a Test-Driven Developmen...
One of the things I really wanted to get started with was setting up a local database for my Express servers. While using an in-memory data object inside of Express is fine, I wanted something a little closer to a real project. So I decided to have ...
TL;DR: This series is about my journey into the world of Back-end Development. Every milestone, small accomplishment, frustration and major achievement is going to be documented in this series. I'll include a few tutorial articles to run through set ...
In my previous post, I talked about the Basics of General Testing. It was a short introduction into the different types of testing and how to approach testing in Jasmine. In this article, I want to take a look at the auto-generated unit test files o...
You've all hear the crowd harping about how great testing is. But has anyone ever told you what testing is? Or what it means? Or how to even approach testing? Don't worry, young padawan. I'll guide you through the basics of testing, the different typ...