In keeping with my previous posts about my Webstorm templates, this is my template for creating a new Angular Service.
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Angular Directive Unit Test Template for WebStorm
If you’ve seen any of my Angular code, you will notice that I use a LOT of element directives (Angular 2 calls these “components”!). You’ll also notice that I like writing a lot of unit tests.
After my previous post on WebStorm templates, I came to the realization that I was writing a lot of boiler plate code for testing these directives. Instead of rewriting these tests every time, I’ve created a template to use for unit testing directives.
(One thing to note, this requires at least angular mocks 1.3.15 for the bindings options in the $controller constructor)
Angular Directive Template for WebStorm
If you’re like me, you find yourself rewriting a lot of boilerplate code with Angular. Especially when creating new files. I just started using templates in WebStorm and it is quite the time saver!
Here’s my first one I use for creating a new directive. This utilizes the bindToController feature of directives for Angular 1.3+.
Take this code and create a new template with it in WebStorm by going to Preferences, Editor, File and Code Templates, then hitting the “+” button.
Once the template is in Webstorm, you can see it in the new file window:
You’ll then be prompted to fill out all of the variables:
Hope this saves some time!
P.S. For you Sublime Text users, you can use this as a ‘trigger’ as well for use in new files!
