JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

A new release of a typical, non-trivial JavaScript project needs to run unit tests, concatenate all source files into one file and minify the result. Some of them also use code generators, coding style validators or other build time tools.

This post explains how to use Grunt.js to build JavaScript library. Grunt.js requires Node.js and npm to run, so first sections explain what those are, how to install them and how to use them. You can feel free to skip those sections if you have already worked with npm. The fourth and fifth sections cover how to configure Grunt and a number of typical Grunt tasks.

Learn how to fully test your AngularJS application with Karma in every possible area using E2E, Unit and Midway testing

How do you setup your test environment? How should you organize your code? How do you setup a runner and how to automate the process? The bigger question is how do you usually test your JavaScript code?

You may also be wondering what exactly to test in your application? What should my tests really look for? How should I write my specs? As you can see there are many questions to answer.

It doesn't take much time to realize that testing JavaScript is difficult and finicky. However, if you wish to get arobust understanding of how to properly test your JavaScript code within your AngularJS application, then continue and read along... :)

I started playing around with creating a workflow for creating single page applications with JavaScript. The big player in this workflow is GruntJS. In this Single Page JavaScript Application Workflow Tutorial I will explain how to setup a build process for your development and production environment. We will be using several GruntJS plugins to help us.