Node school

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Full-stack javascript development

Today’s Event hosts

• St. Patrick’s Church & School - Tacoma

• Knights of Columbus Tacoma Council 809

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Full-stack javascript development

Moderator: Joe Devlin

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Full-stack javascript development

Access this slideshow at:

http://vividventures.biz/d/?q=javascript

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A word from our hosts•St. Patrick’s Church – Tacoma

o The pastoral council has generously offered us this location for today, as part of the churches community outreach.

o Founded in 1892

o Aligned with St. Patrick’s Catholic School link

o Reference: The Bible API

o Working on the Engaged Church model“Growing an Engaged Church” by Albert Winseman, Gallup Press, ISBN 978-1-59562-014-9

o Promoting personal development with Strengths Finder.“Strengths Finder” by Tom Rath, Gallup Press, ISBN 978-1-59562-015-6

strengthsfinder.com

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A word from our hosts• Knights of Columbus www.kofc.org

o Founded in 1882

o Dedicated to “Saving Lives and Changing Lives”

o Promoting strong families through charitable giving and a AAA rated life insurance and annuity program.

o Local projectsHabitat for Humanity Build, Blood Drive, Ultrasound for pregnancy care &

4US.org, Coats for Kids, Wheelchair Mission.

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Introduction•Joe Devlin - moderator

o Member of St Patrick’s Parish and K of C council 809

o Working as a web host for small to medium sized businesses.

o Interested in Javascript for the obvious reasons that it is a must

for web development, plus for the purposes of getting people

together to code; JS is a universal standard that comes with

freely downloadable browsers and tools. We can easily

collaborate.

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Time management

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Present

Code

Discuss

Rest Rooms• Down the hall past the fireside room

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Upcoming events

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• 23-Jan Weather-app mini sprint

• 21-May Nodeschool International Day

Attendee Introduction• Let each of us introduce ourselves

o My name is ____________. (First name)

o Working as a ____________, or looking for work as a _________.

o I have been working on / studying ____________________.

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Today’s code resource

By: Randy Kamradt Sr.https://rlkamradt.wordpress.com/

https://github.com/Tacoma-JS/javamanForked from https://github.com/rkamradt/javaman

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Prerequisites

• Nodejs installed on your laptop https://nodejs.org/en/download/

o check to see if it is installed with a terminal on the comand line $ node -v

• Create a working directory and change into it o $ mkdir node_workspaces && cd node_workspaces

• Clone the project into the workspaceo $ git clone https://github.com/Tacoma-JS/javaman.git

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Where to start inspecting the app?

• The README.md of course!

• package.jsono to manage locally installed npm packages

o Seehttps://github.com/Tacoma-JS/javaman/blob/master/package.json

Or $ cd javaman

$ cat package.json | more (or some other text editor)

Reference: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/using-a-package.json

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Packages

• npm - node package manager is installed with nodejs

• Confirm installation with o $ npm -v

• Update the npm installation as linux root or as windows administrator

o (might cause npm to not function at all… ie deleted) o $ sudo su

o $ npm update npm -g

OR tryo $ npm update npm

• Reference:

• https://www.npmjs.com/

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Packages• Following the README.md instructions in

javaman we see that $ grunt build will be required to update the project files.

• Install the grunt command line interface globally as super user or administrator

o $ sudo su

o Password:---------

o npm install -g grunt-cli

• Reference:o http://gruntjs.com/getting-started

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Packages• If you have a package.json file in your

directory and you run

$npm install

then npm will look at the dependencies that are listed in that file and download the latest versions satisfying semver rules for all of those.

• $ grunt build

• $ grunt test ( to see test results again)

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Codeship.com• What commands are in the codeship test?

o The same commands that we just ran...

$ nvm install 0.10 (extra)$ npm install -g grunt-cli

$ npm install

$ grunt build

plus$ npm test

$ grunt test

Reference:https://codeship.com/features

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Some of the Packages in javaman package.json

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body-parser

grunt-cli express-session

Client side packagesServer side packages

Tools

load-grunt-tasks

build debuggingmethod-override

morgan

Test

?

Should JS• By inspecting the package list we see the BDD tests are

written with ShouldJS.• What tests are run? Try it and see from command

line…$ grunt test

• AND notice the mention of simple-mocha in the test results, and grunt-simple-mocha in package.json.

Reference:Should.js - https://www.npmjs.com/package/shouldStack Overflow - http://stackoverflow.com/tags/should.js/hot

In your browser CDNjs - https://cdnjs.com/libraries/should.js- https://cdnjs.com/libraries/mocha

Mochajs - https://mochajs.org/

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Mochajs and shouldjs combined• What parts of the tests are mochajs?

o describe()

o it()

• What parts of the tests are shouldjs?o state.users.should.be.instanceOf(Array);

o state.users.should.have.length(1);

Reference:Javaman - https://github.com/Tacoma-JS/javaman/blob/master/test/server/field.test.js

Should.js - https://www.npmjs.com/package/shouldMochajs - https://mochajs.org/

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Express – web framework• server.js is in the top level directory of

javaman

Reference:Javaman – https://github.com/Tacoma-JS/javaman/blob/master/server.js

Teamtreehouse tutorial? - express-basics

o your-first-express-app

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Other tutorials

Reference:TDD tutorial – http://www.slideshare.net/conancat/nodejs-writing-tests-a-

beginners-guide/23-4_Test_Situations_that_well

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