Quick Start: End-to-End Testing With Protractor

Todd Horn Angular, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Testing, Tutorial 1 Comment

As AngularJS applications become more complex, manual testing becomes unreliable and repetitive. Unit Testing is a great start for testing the code, but eventually End-to-End testing is needed for better coverage.

A great tool to use for this is Protractor, an end-to-end test framework for AngularJS applications. In this blog, weโ€™ll briefly introduce the benefits of Protractor and give you the steps needed to get started with the tool.

Handlebars – A More Dynamic Way

Dagin Fullmer Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Single-Page Application, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Handlebars.js is a popular templating engine based on the Mustache template language. In this blog, we will explore how Handlebars is a dynamic template creation tool and what benefits logic-less templates afford us. During our discussion we will cover Handlebarsโ€™ precompiling, partials, and helpers, and how each supports or contradicts dynamic and logic-less templates…

An Introduction To Underscore.js

Nick Brown Articles, BackboneJS, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript Leave a Comment

Underscore is a JavaScript utility library with many useful functions to handle common programming use cases. In this blog, I discuss some of the more useful functions I have found inside of Underscore. Some of the benefits are less apparent in smaller and simpler code chunks. But, as the complexity of the code increases, this is where Underscore really shines as the useful toolbox that it is…

Getting Started With JHipster, Part 3

Matt McCandless Angular, Articles, Java, JavaScript, JHipster Series, Spring, Spring Boot, Tutorial 1 Comment

Welcome back to this JHipster tutorial series! In part one we covered creating a monolithic application. In part two, we walked through creating a microservice application (which was a bit more complicated).

For those of you out there working to get things going with JHipster, there are some setup things and โ€œgotchasโ€ that Iโ€™d like to highlight. So this little blog is more of a helper for those of you who have decided to try JHipster out and play around with it. Thatโ€™s what weโ€™ll be discussing in this blog post with the hope that I can help you minimize the getting-up-to-speed curve…

Getting Started With JHipster, Part 2

Matt McCandless Angular, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, JavaScript, JHipster Series, Microservices, Spring Boot Leave a Comment

In part two of this series, we create a microservice architecture using JHipsterโ€™s available options for doing so. There is quite a bit more work to do with this approach as compared with the monolithic approach. But, in the end, it pays off. You will see the benefits and flexibility in decoupling our different layers of our architecture. Each layer will not be dependent upon another to run. Let’s get started…