Quick Start: End-to-End Testing With Protractor

Todd Horn Angular, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Testing, Tutorial 2 Comments

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, we’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 Handlebars’ precompiling, partials, and helpers, and how each supports or contradicts dynamic and logic-less templates…

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 “gotchas” that I’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. That’s what we’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 1

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

So, you want to stay on the leading edge of technology, but feel overwhelmed by all the moving parts. You’re in luck! jHipster aims to make setting-up an app fairly painless.

In this jHipster series we are going to take you through, first, creating a monolithic application. Secondly, we will make an app in the microservices style. Last, we’ll give you some tips and tricks for jHipster best practices. Let’s first begin with Part One…