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Why is DOM-Centric JavaScript Hard to Test?
Why is DOM-Centric JavaScript Hard to Test?
Shawn Wildermuth
February 7, 2014
JavaScript

While producing my recent course on Large Scale JavaScript, I was digging into the testability of JavaScript. So much of the JavaScript I see out there continues to be jQuery driven, DOM-centric JavaScript.

Sure, many of my readers are moving towards AngularJS, Ember and other client-side libraries that encourage modularization, testability, and separation of concerns, but not all web developers are. Ultimately we need to test our JavaScript no matter what the nature of it is.

In this video excerpt from my course, I discuss why DOM-Centric JavaScript is so difficult to test:

Do you agree?

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