This is great content as always. The concern I have about moving to standalone components is the bundle size. I haven't taken a deep look into this, but I've read here and there that there's a lot of code duplicated and your app actually grows in size. I'm sure it can be mitigated with lazy loading, but it's something to consider.
Hi, where did you hear about the bundle size issue? Could it be that you are mistake standalone with the barrel files? Having a lot of barrel files (index.ts) will problems to your bundler because it might not be able to tree-shake them efficientyl, and you may end up with a huge initial bundle. Regarding Standalone vs NgModule, there is no impact on the bundle size.
How about non-standalone dependencies? I have in my imports array some modules with related dependencies. I want to replace them with stubs which I already have. Should I create test module and include all stubs components in it and add it to the standalone imports?
So you will always have to configure the TestingModule. There is no other way if you want to test via the DOM (and it is also the official recommendation). Without standalone, mocking is easier. you just declare your stubs instead the original ones. Declare, not import.
I really enjoyed this video because you took a problem, demonstrated why it happens, demonstrated a solutions with explanation - then provided information on a third party product. With this video I learned so much, even beyond testing
You mention the usage of ng-mocks library to Mock Standalone Components. We use this as wel to mock our services that we provide. However, sometimes, it uses the actual service instead of the mocked one. How do you properly mock these services that you provide?
another great explanation! thank you! it's embarassing but in my company we got new schematics using overrideCopmonents and I just did not bother finding out why... sometimes the test did not work and then I spend hours trying out different things. So happy I now understand, what it does!
Do you want to test only the guards or the guard in combination with a Component? In the first case, check out this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mMiSmStwGOU.html, in the second that one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DsOxW9TKroo.html
I just ran into a situation like this today but with component store in a child component being the troublesome thing. I think this solution will work a lot better than what I tried to do. Thanks.
