What I’m trying to do:
I’m trying to setup TDD by following the guidelines here. I want to connect to the “dev” branch of my project, but I don’t see any option to connect to a branch other than master.
Here is a screenshot of what I see in the Anvil Uplink popup. Note that I am currently “Editing branch: dev” which I assume means that the dev branch is checked out.
You don’t have access to staging environments on the free plan, so I suspect you’re right and you’re stuck with an uplink key pointing to master.
You could probably use another app that uses your main one as a dependency and runs tests on client-side modules and server functions. The client side supports unittest (not pyunit), so you could write your tests in it in the other app.
Thank you for getting back to me so fast and I appreciate the potential work-around. However, wouldn’t that run into the same problem with staging and publishing the app?
Let’s say that App A is the main app meant to be seen by users, and App B is the testing app that has A as it’s dependency. If I add a new function break_everything() to App A, I wouldn’t be able to test it from B until it’s published and breaking everything for users.
Perhaps this is naive, but what about adding server side module in App A with unittest and do without App B all together?
@jshaffstall is right: on the Free plan you can’t create staging environments for testing, so if your production deployment is on master then that’s where your global uplink key points. However, you can connect uplinks to your personal debug environment, which runs whatever branch you’ve got checked out in the editor.
Also, if you’re looking for hints on TDD with Anvil, this post from me might also be useful!
I wasn’t able to find anyways to navigate to different pages on the debugger. Is there a way to navigate to or load a specific form?
I made a button that calls run_tests() on the server on a hidden page that I temporarily set as landing page when debugging. However, I can totally see myself forgetting to reset the landing page and accidentally serving that page to the users.
You’re looking for routing: Routing Dependency (Beta) That isn’t something that happens by default, you need to design your app around it. The linked post has links to the docs for it.
For future reference, when you depend on an app you can say if you’re depending on the published or development versions, or on any version tagged with the v1.0 format.
Is there a way to directly input the URL in the debugger if I use server routing instead of client routing? My goal is to be able to click a button that trigger unit tests to run on the server; I wouldn’t want users to see this button so I put it on a page I don’t link to from the rest of the app.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you here. I was asking if there’s any way for uplink or another app to access a non published version of the app on free or hobby tier.
Click Publish in the upper right and then click Get a link to my development environment. You’ll then see where you can generate uplink keys for it.
Yes, that’s what I was addressing, if you needed to do the dependency route. Since you don’t need that, don’t worry about it. When you at some point use an app as a dependency in another app you’ll see what I meant.
