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Learning Angular, Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Learning Angular, Fourth Edition A no-nonsense guide to building web applications with Angular 15

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240602
Length 446 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Pablo Deeleman Pablo Deeleman
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Aristeidis Bampakos Aristeidis Bampakos
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building Your First Angular Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to TypeScript 3. Organizing Application into Modules 4. Enabling User Experience with Components 5. Enrich Applications Using Pipes and Directives 6. Managing Complex Tasks with Services 7. Being Reactive Using Observables and RxJS 8. Communicating with Data Services over HTTP 9. Navigating through Application with Routing 10. Collecting User Data with Forms 11. Introduction to Angular Material 12. Unit Test an Angular Application 13. Bringing an Application to Production 14. Handling Errors and Application Debugging 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Testing components

You may have noticed that every time we used the Angular CLI to scaffold a new Angular application or generate an Angular artifact, it would create some test files for us.

Test files in the Angular CLI contain the word spec in their filename. The filename of a test is the same as the Angular artifact that is testing, followed by the suffix .spec.ts. For example, the test file for the main component of an Angular application, app.component.ts, would be app.component.spec.ts and reside in the same path as the component file.

We should think about an Angular artifact and its corresponding test as one thing. When we change the logic of the artifact, we may need to modify the unit test as well. Placing unit test files with their Angular artifacts makes it easier for us to remember and edit them. It also helps us when we need to do some refactoring to our code, such as moving artifacts (not forgetting to move the unit test...

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