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Published inApr 2017
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Andrea Passaglia
Andrea Passaglia
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Andrea Passaglia

Andrea Passaglia was born in Genoa, in northern Italy. Interested about technology since his parents gave him a toy computer when he was a boy, he started studying web technologies at an early age. After obtaining his master's degree in computer engineering he worked on the design and implementation of web interfaces for companies of various sizes and in different industries (healthcare, fashion, tourism, and transport). In 2016 he moves in the silicon valley of Europe to tackle new problems in the banking industry at the Edgeverve Dublin Research and Development Labs. A backend technologist by trade, Vue.js is his first tool to bring to life his creations when it comes to the frontend. Andrea is married to a lovely Russian girl from Siberia and they often cook together mixing culinary traditions.
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Stubbing external API calls with Sinon.JS


Normally, when you do end-to-end testing and integration testing, you will have the backend server running and ready to respond to you. I think there are many situations in which this is not desirable. As a frontend developer, you take every opportunity to blame the backend guys.

Getting ready

No particular skills are required to complete this recipe, but you should install Jasmine as a dependency; this is explained in detail in the Using Jasmine for testing Vue recipe.

How to do it...

First of all, let's install some dependencies. For this recipe, we will use Jasmine to run the whole thing; you can find detailed instructions in the Using Jasmine for testing Vue recipe (the four files you'll need are jasmine.css, jasmine.js, jasmine-html.js, and boot.js, in this order)

Also, install Sinon.JS and Axios before continuing; you just need to add the js files relative to them.

We will build an application that retrieves a post at the click of a button. In the...

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Published in: Apr 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786468093

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Andrea Passaglia

Andrea Passaglia was born in Genoa, in northern Italy. Interested about technology since his parents gave him a toy computer when he was a boy, he started studying web technologies at an early age. After obtaining his master's degree in computer engineering he worked on the design and implementation of web interfaces for companies of various sizes and in different industries (healthcare, fashion, tourism, and transport). In 2016 he moves in the silicon valley of Europe to tackle new problems in the banking industry at the Edgeverve Dublin Research and Development Labs. A backend technologist by trade, Vue.js is his first tool to bring to life his creations when it comes to the frontend. Andrea is married to a lovely Russian girl from Siberia and they often cook together mixing culinary traditions.
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