AngleSharp VS AutoFixture

Instead, what I ended up doing is utilizing AngleSharp for transforming the existing (dynamic) websites into static files. I've stored them on disk and made them ready to be served statically.

AngleSharp

Read and understand the HTML DOM with something like this https://anglesharp.github.io/

Personally, if that script I wrote did need to be used on Core I probably would have compiled AngleSharp, loaded the HTML Parser DLL into the script, and used that.

Now, assuming you have to scrape, C# does have two decent scraping libraries: AngleSharp and Html Agility Pack. I personally prefer AngleSharp.

I would love a blog post or even a series of them about scraping local HTML files with either AngleSharp or HTMLAgilityPack.

If you want a cleaner and modern alternative to HtmlAgilityPack then I'd suggest https://github.com/AngleSharp/AngleSharp

Use anglesharp for parsing html

Yes, it does feel like some of the "standard stuff" in other more nuanced languages are missing (especially miss AutoFixture ngl). Some of those are a conscious decison by the golang team for example.

Our first test is very easy, I like to name my tests as MethodName_GivenCondition_ShouldExpectedResult to follow the pattern, I have added GetById_GivenRecordDoesNotExist_ShouldReturnNull and I am going to leavarage excellent AutoFixture to get a new Guid as parameter. For this test we don't need arrange part, we would skip to the act and then assert. For Assertion I am going to use FluentAssertions. For this test we need to assert the returned result is null.

The next test to talk about, is that if this was a bank, we would have multiple customers, who can hold multiple accounts that we need to calculate the interest for. You could manually construct these objects if you want, but I'm going to use a package called AutoFixture to make life easier.

AutoFixture is an amazing library that simplifies the process of creating test data in .NET. If for some reason you don't use this fantastic tool, it's time to consider it. Today, I'm going to share some tips for using AutoFixture that will be beneficial for developers of all skill levels. Let's get started!

AutoFixture

Ensuring that your test is still readable and not bloated by the setup of those variables may be quite a challenge but hopefully no more with AutoFixture, let's see how!

One neat library for creating and generating test data is AutoFixture.  The creators describe it as follows:

First time I heard of Bogus, looks interesting, been using AutoFixture for those will definitely take a look at it.