Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

Testing component life cycle

We need to ensure that our data is retrieved as expected, and the same way, we need to assert that our component behavior is going well too. To do this, we can tell the component we created that we will manually handle the life cycle methods; you will find the code very self-explanatory:

import {StageComponent} from 'aurelia-testing';import {bootstrap} from 'aurelia-bootstrapper';describe('CustomerComponent', () => {  let component;  beforeEach(() => {    component = StageComponent      .withResources('src/customer-component')      .inView('<customer-component cust-name.bind="custName"></customer-component>')      .boundTo({ custName: 'Diego' });  });  it('can manually handle life cycle', done => {    let nameElement;    component.manuallyHandleLifecycle(). ...