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maboiteaspam / douglasPeucker.js
Last active August 29, 2015 14:27 — forked from adammiller/douglasPeucker.js
Javascript implementation of the Douglas Peucker path simplification algorithm
var simplifyPath = function( points, tolerance ) {
// helper classes
var Vector = function( x, y ) {
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
};
var Line = function( p1, p2 ) {
this.p1 = p1;
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maboiteaspam / portable-node.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:26 — forked from domenic/portable-node.md
Tips for Writing Portable Node.js Code

Node.js core does its best to treat every platform equally. Even if most Node developers use OS X day to day, some use Windows, and most everyone deploys to Linux or Solaris. So it's important to keep your code portable between platforms, whether you're writing a library or an application.

Predictably, most cross-platform issues come from Windows. Things just work differently there! But if you're careful, and follow some simple best practices, your code can run just as well on Windows systems.

Paths and URLs

On Windows, paths are constructed with backslashes instead of forward slashes. So if you do your directory manipulation

You can use Codeception to test Javascript, like DOM manipulations and Ajax requests. Out of the box it can manipulate DOM elements but can't execute Javascript code, like most testing frameworks. But it gives you the option to use a WebDriver, to connect to a headless browser, and mimic a user browsing your website. It gives you some options: Selenium2, ZombieJS and, the easiest to configure, PhantomJS.

This article covers the installation and usage of PhantomJS, and assumes you are using Laravel Homestead, but it will work on any relatively new Debian based distro, like Ubuntu 14.04.

###Install PhantomJS

Just run those commands to install it:

sudo apt-get update