Improved error handling and user feedback for errors#69
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Updates Bootstrap from version 5.3.7 to 5.3.8, improves error handling with styled error messages and user-friendly buttons, and enhances test coverage. This PR focuses on better user experience during error scenarios and ensures the application gracefully handles failed article fetches.
- Updated Bootstrap to version 5.3.8 with minor styling improvements
- Enhanced error handling with Bootstrap-styled error messages including "Refresh" and "Home" buttons
- Improved test coverage for error scenarios and updated development dependencies
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| File | Description |
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| src/scripts/libraries/bootstrap/* | Updated Bootstrap framework from v5.3.7 to v5.3.8 |
| src/scripts/index.js | Enhanced error handling with styled messages and improved fetch error checking |
| src/scripts/index.test.js | Updated tests to verify error message display and added fetch failure test cases |
| package.json | Updated development dependencies and modified start script to disable caching |
| cypress/e2e/landing.cy.js | Added test for missing article error handling |
| cypress.config.js | Removed deprecated experimentalStudio flag |
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This pull request improves error handling and user feedback for missing or failed article loads, updates dependencies, and enhances test coverage. The most significant changes are grouped below.
Error Handling and User Feedback:
ArticleFiller.displayErrormethod now provides a styled error message with Bootstrap, including "Refresh" and "Home" buttons for better user experience. Error messages are more robust and handle empty or undefined input gracefully.ArticleFiller.grabArticle: now checks for non-OK HTTP responses and displays a detailed error message with the status code and text.Testing Improvements:
displayErrorto check for the presence of error messages in the DOM, and added tests for handling fetch failures with non-OK responses ingrabArticle. [1] [2]Dependency and Configuration Updates:
package.json, includingcypress,eslint,jest, and others, to their latest versions.startscript inpackage.jsonto disable caching for the local server.Code Robustness:
Configuration Cleanup:
experimentalStudioflag from the Cypress configuration.