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Day 3 Overview: Testing Practices + Integration Tests

Aug 17, 2023 · 13 min read · Testing Practices Unit Tests for Express Middleware Let’s look at an example: import {initDb, generate} from 'til-server-test-utils' import * as postsController from '../posts' import db from '../../utils/db' // I'll give this one to you. You want ...

Day 2 Overview: Mocks

Aug 17, 2023 · 11 min read · Mocks Monkey Patch a Mock Exercise For this next section on mocks, I'll use another example to start formulating the concept of what mocks are and when they should be used. Let’s check out the following code to start the process: import {getWinner} ...

Day 1 Overview: Intro to Testing

Aug 17, 2023 · 11 min read · Introduction Why am I taking this course? One of the things that I feel I should have at least an introductory level of experience with, among many other things as a software engineer, is testing. In all of the projects that I've built, none of them...

Day 4 Overview: Reactive Programming with Proxies

Aug 2, 2023 · 16 min read · Creating a Proxy A proxy is a wrapper object that allows you to intercept and modify operations performed on the wrapped object, allowing us to add custom behavior or validations to the object’s properties and methods. So this immediately strikes me ...

Day 3 Overview: Routing + Web Components

Aug 2, 2023 · 14 min read · Browser Routing & History API Single Page Applications: how to change the content The idea of a SPA, vs a multi-page app, is that we’re only using one HTML page that will render all of our content. Otherwise, we would need multiple HTML pages for eac...