I have been doing some work with Laravel lately and needed to force a site to use https for everything. One of the first problems I encountered was figuring out how to force https in Laravel for linked stylesheets, javascript assets, etc... I found a few different solutions, but none of them solved the issue. I was able to combine a couple of different approaches and found … [Read more...] about SOLVED: Force Assets to use HTTPS in Laravel
SOLVED: Protractor Config to show iframes in PhantomJS
If you are reading this post, you probably figured out that PhantomJS won't display iframes without additional configuration out of the box. The flags that would normally be passed are: --ignore-ssl-errors=true --web-security=false I am adding this post as a good place to reference this later on. I found a bunch of answers online with this one buried in an issue under the … [Read more...] about SOLVED: Protractor Config to show iframes in PhantomJS
AngularJS Add $scope to Controller Unit Test
First off, you really shouldn't be adding $scope to your controller. Always use ControllerAs syntax as a best practice. If you aren't familiar, John Papa has an excellent style guide for AngularJS coding practices: Angular 1 Style Guide Alright, now that we got that out of the way. You probably have an edge case or something where you need to add it. Cool, I got you covered. … [Read more...] about AngularJS Add $scope to Controller Unit Test
How to Install PhantomJS 2.5 Beta on MacOS
PhantomJS on MacOS is a quick, excellent alternative to Google Chrome for a native browser testing platform. The beta version, PhantomJS 2.5 offers support for ES2015 unlike the current stable branch (at the time of writing this article 2.1.x). Download PhantomJS 2.5 for MacOS At the time of writing this article, the following versions are available: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS … [Read more...] about How to Install PhantomJS 2.5 Beta on MacOS
SOLVED: PhantomJS 2.5 Beta: Library not loaded: libwebp.6.dylib
After installing PhantomJS 2.5 Beta on MacOS, I ran into the following error after trying to get the version: dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/webp/lib/libwebp.6.dylib After some research, I found out that the library behind it 'webp' had been updated to libwebp.7.dylib. Step 1: Install webp via Homebrew If you have a Mac and are a developer, I assume that you … [Read more...] about SOLVED: PhantomJS 2.5 Beta: Library not loaded: libwebp.6.dylib