Category Archives: WinJS

A WinJS SpecRunner: Automating Script Tag Insertion For Unit Tests

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Derick Bailey

Writing unit tests with Mocha or Jasmine is generally pretty easy. Once you have a test runner set up, it’s not much different than any other JavaScript environment, really. But the trick to this is getting a test runner set … Continue reading →

Also posted in Jasmine, Javascript, MochaJS, Productivity, Test Automation, Unit Testing | 3 Comments

Asynchronous Unit Tests With Mocha, Promises, And WinJS

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Derick Bailey

Before I get in to the guts of this post, you need to read Christopher Bennage’s post on how we have our Mocha test suite set up for our Win8 / WinJS project. It’s not the best setup, but it … Continue reading →

Also posted in Async, ChaiJS, CommonJS, Javascript, MochaJS, Testing | 11 Comments

WinJS Event Aggregators And Observable/Evented Objects

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Derick Bailey

In a previous post, I showed a very brief intro to using an application level event aggregator in WinJS. At the end of that post, I hinted at an option I was looking in to for creating localized event aggregators … Continue reading →

Also posted in Classy Inheritance, Design Patterns, Javascript | 5 Comments

A Quick Note On Pub-Sub / Event Aggregators In WinJS/WinRT

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Derick Bailey

By now you know that I’m a fan of pub-sub / event aggregators, whether it’s .NET / Winforms or Backbone or whatever. For the last 3 weeks working on this WinJS / WinRT app with the Microsoft P&P group, I’ve … Continue reading →

Also posted in Design Patterns, Javascript | 4 Comments

Partially Applied Functions In JavaScript

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Derick Bailey

I’m finding myself doing more and more functional programming with JavaScript lately – especially in recent days with this WinJS project I’m working on, and the heavy use of promises that it encourages. This feels a little odd to me, … Continue reading →

Also posted in Async, ECMAScript, Functional, Javascript, Underscore | 8 Comments

Want To Build Win8/WinJS Apps? You Need To Understand Promises.

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Derick Bailey

If you’re not following me on Twitter, you may not know about my current project work. I’m working with Christopher Bennage and the Microsoft Patterns & Practices group to build a Windows 8, WinJS, Metro-style app with HTML, CSS and … Continue reading →

Also posted in Async, CommonJS, Javascript | 4 Comments