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 […]
Unit Testing
Testing Angular 2 Applications with PhantomJS | ES2015, TypeScript
By default, Chrome is set as the test runner of choice for applications generated with Angular-cli. The problem is that Chrome is really slow for running more than a few tests. For anyone who develops following the Test Driven Development(TDD) approach like myself, this can be extremely annoying. If you have anything more than a […]
How to Install PhantomJS 2.5 Beta on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 LTS
PhantomJS is a quick, excellent alternative to native browser testing for both e2e testing with selenium and JavaScript unit testing with Karma. 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 Ubuntu At the time of writing this […]