MeanCourse

This project was generated with Angular CLI version 6.0.1.

Development server

Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Code scaffolding

Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the --prod flag for a production build.

Data Management

The follwoing functions are used to manipulate array's and data.

• array.concat(array2) : Adds 2 arrays together & puts array2 last.
  
• array.filter(callback[, thisObject]) : Returns new filtered array.

Angular testing

How to use

• ng test : Runs all test suites

Find
Mean-stack-app --> src --> app --> app.component.spec.ts

Info

• Karma.config.js is the configuration file for running automative tests in our angular app.
• test.ts is our test file which is created for us by default
• app.component.spec.ts file is our first acutal testfile.

Description

• "Descripe" is the first keyword which describes our test suite.
• "It" is the keyword for the start of each test.
• "expect(component).toBe(something) is how we expect the test to go. (behavior)
• You can create "stub" data to illustrate how the data should look like from backend.

Functions
.toBeTruthy() : Means something == true
.toContain('something) : will check for substring or element of an array.
.toBe('something') : Gives you an exact match.
.toBeGreatherThan(2) : Self expained
de.query(by.css('h1'))).toBe('alert button') : Checks the element in the dom (HTML)

Download and convert files

Converting from JSON to CSV function can be found here.
https://medium.com/mycoding/export-json-to-csv-file-in-angular-d1b674ec79ed

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