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Angular Cookbook

You're reading from   Angular Cookbook Over 80 actionable recipes every Angular developer should know

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838989439
Length 652 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Winning Components Communication 2. Chapter 2: Understanding and Using Angular Directives FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: The Magic of Dependency Injection in Angular 4. Chapter 4: Understanding Angular Animations 5. Chapter 5: Angular and RxJS – Awesomeness Combined 6. Chapter 6: Reactive State Management with NgRx 7. Chapter 7: Understanding Angular Navigation and Routing 8. Chapter 8: Mastering Angular Forms 9. Chapter 9: Angular and the Angular CDK 10. Chapter 10: Writing Unit Tests in Angular with Jest 11. Chapter 11: E2E Tests in Angular with Cypress 12. Chapter 12: Performance Optimization in Angular 13. Chapter 13: Building PWAs with Angular 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating even easier component tests with Angular CDK component harnesses

When writing tests for components, there might be scenarios where you'd actually want to interact with the DOM elements. Now, this can already be achieved by using the fixture.debugElement.query method to find the element using a selector and then triggering events on it. However, that means maintaining it for different platforms, knowing the identifiers of all the selectors, and then exposing all of that in the tests. And this is even worse if we're talking about an Angular library. It certainly isn't necessary for each developer who interacts with my library to know all the element selectors in order to write the tests. Only the author of the library should know that much to respect encapsulation. Luckily, we have the component harnesses from the Angular CDK team, which were released with Angular 9 along with the IVY compiler. And they've led by example, by providing component harnesses...

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