[ Module Ready for 2024/25 ] A Visual Studio-based Development Container for CIS2701.

• Docker Desktop
• Visual Studio Code (with Dev Containers extension installed)

The development environment contains everything you need for CIS2701. This includes all the neccessary directories for tutorials,tasks as well as the following configurations for:

• Javascript

  • Node.js (A Javascript Framework)
  • Mocha (A Javascript testing framework)

• PHP

  • composer (A php package manager)
  • phpunit (a PHP unit testing framework)

• No VS Code extensions have been installed
• The debugging for both JavaScript and PHP has already been configured for you.

You will be required to test your coding using unit tests. The two framework you will use for this module are Mocha and Phpunit. To use these command line interface (CLI) tools with in the development container open up a new terminal (remembering to choose bash as the terminal shell) pane and enter the following:

• For JavaScript (.js) files: mocha <path-to-unit-test-code>

• For PHP (.php) files: phphunit <path-to-unit-test-code>

Replacing <path-to-unit-test-code> with the path to the file containing the unit test code. Please refer to the Web Teaching Environment for more information on how to use these tools.