The world has changed. UI Engineering is 4 realz. Servers have gotten skinny, UI has gotten fat phat.
To fulfill its potential, UI Developers need to learn/use some important lessons that used to be the exclusive domain of Server-side Dev. Automated testing is one of the biggest. Automated testing, in a nutshell, allows you to prevent regressions while you work, particularly when you’re developing on a large codebase and/or a codebase worked on by many people. Often, this is hard. Angular.JS provides tools that make it easy (-er). Continue reading
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