Posts tagged "testing"
Test driving a HackerNews scraper with Node.js
This is a short summary of my experience while writing a simple HackerNews scraper.
As a pure exercise or kata if you want, I tried to apply Clean code, Refactoring and Testing priciples for this small npm module.
The task is simple:
Get the posts on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com and parse them.
Validate your RSS feed
Today a dear user made me aware that my RSS feed broke. There was a XML Parsing Error for cri.dev/rss.xml.
ASAP after work I checked the validity through validator.w3.org/feed/ and in fact there were some issues with it.
Always $digest after you expect
Angular`s digest loop is like a baby: you need to take care of it and feed it well, or it will puke all over your nice shirt. Actually, it will probably, eventually do it anyway.
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