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Mastering Node.js

You're reading from   Mastering Node.js Expert techniques for building fast servers and scalable, real-time network applications with minimal effort

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166320
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding the Node Environment 2. Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming FREE CHAPTER 3. Streaming Data Across Nodes and Clients 4. Using Node to Access the Filesystem 5. Managing Many Simultaneous Client Connections 6. Creating Real-time Applications 7. Utilizing Multiple Processes 8. Scaling Your Application 9. Testing your Application A. Organizing Your Work B. Introducing the Path Framework C. Creating your own C++ Add-ons Index

Using Grunt, Mocha, and PhantomJS to test and deploy projects


With our new knowledge about headless browsers and test frameworks, let's develop a slightly more realistic build/test/deploy system using Node. We'll continue to use Mocha, and swap out ZombieJS for the solid PhantomJS, which unlike ZombieJS is not an emulator, it is a true WebKit browser, making it a more powerful and accurate testing environment.

We will introduce Grunt, The JavaScript Test Runner, which is designed for task automation, such as automatically running Mocha tests and deploying the current build, if all those tests pass.

The goal is to create a system that allows developers to write simple HTML pages and have Grunt to automatically test and deploy them. It is to turn this source code:

<head>
<!-- build:css:deploy css/style.min.css -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<!-- /build -->
</head>
<body>
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