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> With the advent of HTML5, we can now develop rich web apps that rival classical standalone apps. This richness together with the portability of web technologies, turned HTML 5 into a viable (and in the case of mobile - essential) solution to develop cross-platform apps. This possibility is heavily dependent on Javascript having acceptable performance, good testability, and a modern development environment. Despite its extensive use in creating highly interactive environments, most Javascript development environments currently use a compile/run paradigm. Similarly, testing is frequently tacked on, rather than being an integrated part of the development cycle. We propose PharoJS which leverages the Smalltalk IDE with a seamless transition from native Smalltalk tests, through proxied browser tests, to full browser-resident tests. We support the standard event-driven browser model and transpile Smalltalk code into efficient Javascript for execution in the browser. We further support testing - both manually and automatically - in a range of browsers to provide assured consistency upon deployment. In addition to transpiling the Smalltalk code to Javascript to perform tests in the browser, we can also run non-interactive tests within the Smalltalk environment. The unique feature we provide is the ability to run interactive tests largely within the Smalltalk IDE, so as to fully exploit the debugging and development environment, while the actual interaction occurs on the browser. We exhibit this new mode of development via a simple application.
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