ZPT-JS tutorial - Building and testing

Starting ZPT-JS

Asumming you have downloaded ZPT-JS before, move to the directory of ZPT-JS and use the next command to install the dependencies of ZPT-JS:

$ npm run install
                

Then use the next command to initialize a beefy server (port 9966) to make it easy to test ZPT-JS without browserifying by hand and a HTTP server (port 9000) to serve static files (HTML, CSS and JSON files):

$ npm run start
                

ZPT-JS uses Grunt as task runner tool. Grunt file uses:

• grunt-browserify. Build javascript files to be understood for browsers.
• grunt-contrib-watch. Watch changes of javascript files to invoke browserify automatically.

The web of ZPT-JS

Use the next command to initialize a HTTP server (port 9001) to serve static files of the web of ZPT-JS:

$ npm run web
                

Open http://localhost:9001 with your favourite browser to view the web of ZPT-JS.

Testing

ZPT-JS uses QUnit as testing framework. There are some different ways for testing ZPT-JS:

• Open http://localhost:9000/test/ with your favourite browser. Be careful: only related to browser test are run! All tests passed using last versions of Mozilla Firefox (68.0.1, 64-bit) and Chromium (74.0.3729.169, 64-bit). Perhaps some tests fail using other browsers!
• Test ZPT-JS using console:

  $ npm run testBrowser   // Run the related to browser tests
  $ npm run testNode      // Run the related to node.js tests
  $ npm run test          // Run all tests
                          

  Some tests (errors.html, folderDictionaries.html and folderDictionaries2.html) show this error message several times:

  Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
                          

  This is due to forced loading errors (errors.html) or errors trying to load folder dictionaries (folderDictionaries.html and folderDictionaries2.html). This is the expected behaviour.