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Discussion on: Angular v9 & Universal: SSR and prerendering out of the box!

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John Peters

Thanks for article Sam. Kind-of funny how SSR; which was the only way (for 20 years or more e.g. CGI, ASP.NET, MVC etc.); faded away around the time of AngularJS, Angular, Vue and React. Alas we see it back again in this article.

Do you see SSR as having a better footprint for testing?

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Sam Vloeberghs

Hi, can you elaborate a bit on "footprint for testing"? Not sure what you mean.. Thanks alot!

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John Peters

Jasmine testing does not really do unit testing because all outbound HTML requests must be mocked, that bypasses a lot of the ability to perform a natural test on any component in my opinion.

With server side rendering each request is easily able to be tested using http requests only, which I would think is a lot better than Jasmine trying to do component testing.