NobbZ
I am pretty sure I read a blog post once about how to test live view without using headless browsers.
And as I am experimenting with live view now, I wanted to re-read that article/post for my experiments.
Sadly everything I can find relies on headless browsers.
Can someone perhaps point me to some blog posts about testing live view without headless browsers?
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dalerka
This one is pretty basic, yet might be helpful:
Adzz
Can’t help with the specific blog post, but the liveview docs are good. The only reason you might need a headless browser is if you needed to test the js on a page as well. Otherwise the docs for liveview provide good info on testing.
rjk
there’s also a talk from the same author (German Velasco) that’s already pointed to above, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NURVLysrk
And he has another blog post Using has_element?/3 for better LiveViewTest assertions
Another thing that could help you is this: bytepack_archive/apps/bytepack_web/test/bytepack_web/live at main · dashbitco/bytepack_archive · GitHub The source code behind bytepack from the ‘makers’ themselves
AFAICS it’s not using any headless browsers so could help you to see how they are doing it.