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Drupal 9 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 9 Module Development Get up and running with building powerful Drupal modules and applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204621
Length 626 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Developing for Drupal 9 2. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Module FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing 4. Chapter 4: Theming 5. Chapter 5: Menus and Menu Links 6. Chapter 6: Data Modeling and Storage 7. Chapter 7: Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types 8. Chapter 8: The Database API 9. Chapter 9: Custom Fields 10. Chapter 10: Access Control 11. Chapter 11: Caching 12. Chapter 12: JavaScript and the Ajax API 13. Chapter 13: Internationalization and Languages 14. Chapter 14: Batches, Queues, and Cron 15. Chapter 15: Views 16. Chapter 16: Working with Files and Images 17. Chapter 17: Automated Testing 18. Chapter 18: Drupal Security 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Functional JavaScript tests

The last type of PHP tests we can write in Drupal is the JavaScript-powered Functional test. FunctionalJavascript tests are useful when we want to test more dynamic client-side functionality such as JavaScript behaviors or Ajax interactions.

They are an extension of the regular Functional tests, but which use WebDriver. The latter is an API that allows things like Selenium to control browsers such as Chrome or Firefox. Drupal uses Chrome for this so make sure you have Selenium installed and working with the Chrome driver. We won't cover this here because it depends on your local environment and the current latest versions. But if you are following along with the GitHub repository accompanying this book, you should be all set up.

Assuming you have Selenium running, we can write some tests. But only after we add another environment variable to the PHPUnit configuration file (ensure the Selenium endpoint is correct for you):

<env name=&quot...
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