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As you may be aware, the front end of the PubReviews.com website is built using ReactJS. I wrote about it here. For SEO purposes we utilise server side rendering of Javascript components (woo ! Isomorphic Javascript) such that on page load the user (or search engine) gets an instantaneous, near

My current build process for PubReviews.com utilizes Grunt. On occasion I have seen 'Esprima' outputted within my build logs. I have always been happy to allow the internals of the tools which I utilize for build and release cycles to keep their internals relatively hidden. That was

In an attempt to extend the functionality of Mocha for a specific use case I was required to look into its source code. I wanted to write the flow down so it was clearer to myself. Maybe someone else will find this useful. Mocha Firstly you have the Mocha '

I have been playing around with a number of open source projects pertaining to testing different aspects of a web based application. Over the past few days i have been playing with PhantomJS, Mocha, and Chai. What is PhantomJS? PhantomJS is a full stack headless web browser based on Webkit.

Over the past few days i have been investigating Facebook's Jest - a javascript unit testing framework. I have found a number of issues with it for my use case. My main issue is as to what it is actually useful for. The documentation outlines how to test