A JavaScript Testing Journey
Testing full-stack web applications thoroughly
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10 Posts by Mathias Schäfer
Testing Angular applications
Angular is an excellent framework for building enterprise-grad JavaScript single-page applications. How do take advantage of Angular’s testability?
Maintaining JavaScript applications in the long term
How we enhanced and refactored a client project over six years.
Maintaining large JavaScript applications
Lessons we have learned from maintaining large JavaScript applications in the long term.
New project: OECD Data Portal
In July, we have launched a new client site, the OECD Data Portal. The OECD is an international organization that analyses national economies to coordinate the policies of its member states. The OECD conducts well-known studies like PISA and...
Why JavaScript web applications should embrace traditional URLs
In this article, I will first take a high-level look at modern frontend architectures: In a time where web apps easily surpass 1 MB of JavaScript, what should we try to achieve? Second, based on these considerations, I’m going to argue that...
How we built the data visualization tool GED VIZ
Last week we released GED VIZ, a tool to create data visualizations for the web. It’s free to use and also open source! See the announcement for general information. GED VIZ is a large JavaScript (“HTML5”) application that runs in modern web...
GED VIZ: An HTML5 data visualization tool
Good visualisations are more than just fancy graphics. They are a lot about storytelling, shedding light on important issues, and at the same time inspiring us to raise new questions. Building such visualisations can be a very time-consuming effort,...
JavaScript MVC frameworks: A Comparison of Marionette and Chaplin
JavaScript application development is a hot topic and people are wondering which framework they should pick. Русский перевод In this post I’m going to compare two of them. Marionette and Chaplin are frameworks on top of the...
Chaplin – an Application Architecture based on Backbone.js
Today we’re releasing the application architecture of moviepilot.com into the public: Meet Chaplin! In April 2011, Moviepilot, a successful Berlin-based startup, asked us to help building their new product moviepilot.com. After having established an...
