SquareSpace is a site development platform designed to make generating websites very easy.
Designer Overview
Tons of site templates
Guided Page Creation
Many templates for layout
Toolbars for colour selection
Rough Pricing
Personal - $12 month
Business - $18 month
Personal Recommendations for Clients
Charities
Restaurants
Artists
Personal Sites
Overall
Advantages
Quick Setup
Easy Handoff
Responsive
24/7 Support
Disadvantages
Full customization - Paid
Can be a little cookie cutter
Holds your hand too much
SquareSpace vs. Wordpress
SquareSpace is focused on users without web dev skills. It also has built in e-commerce options and lots of other functionality which would require plugins in Wordpress.
Wordpress is infinitely customizable, but also often used by those without web dev skills. It's technically free but to get similar functionality to SquareSpace users may need to pay for themes, plugins, etc.
Shopify
Shopify is primarily an ecommerce web solution.
Designer Overview
Very similar to SquareSpace.
GUI for aesthetics
GUI for inventory manager
GUI for everything...
Rough Pricing
$30 - Basic
$80 - Standard
$300 - Advanced
Personal Recommendations for Clients
DIYers
Small Businesses
People with products.
Overall
Advantages
Affordable Ecommerce
Very extendable
Plugin Market - Make $$$$
Disadvantages
Learning Curve
Cost can add up
Shopify vs. SquareSpace
Shopify was specifically created for users intending to build an online store. More expensive plans come with significant analytics tools.
SquareSpace was intended as a content management tool but now has similar e-commerce functionality.
Unit Testing
Types of Software Testing
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
Performance Testing
Acceptance Testing
Regression Testing
E2E Testing
Test Driven Development
TDD is the development process of working in small cycles. Each cycle, you write a test, write the amount of code needed,
and repeat.
Unit Testing
Take a small block of code and make sure it works as expected. Unit testing is one of the types of testing typically done in Test Driven Development.
Unit Testing in JavaScript
You need two things:
A runner: Karma
starts a web server, serves up the page that will run the tests, report results of the test
A Testing Framework: Jasmine
Gives you the syntax for writing tests
Basic Syntax
describe("A suite is just a function", function() {
var a;
it("and so is a spec", function() {
a = true;
expect(a).toBe(true);
});
});