Skip to Content
Advanced Node.js Development
book

Advanced Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Advanced Node.js Development

Adding describe block for the test cases

I'm going to use describe to group all of the routes. I'm going to have multiple test cases for some routes, and it's nice to add a describe block so you can quickly glance at the test output in the Terminal. The describe block for POST Todos will simply be called POST /todos. Then, we can add our arrow function (=>), and inside of here we can start laying out our test cases. The first test is going to verify that when we send the appropriate data, everything goes as expected:

const {Todo} = require('./../models/todo');describe('POST /todos', () => {
  it('should create a new todo')
});

Now, we can add our callback function, and this function is going to take the done argument because this is going to ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Learning Node.js Development

Learning Node.js Development

Andrew Mead
Serverless Applications with Node.js

Serverless Applications with Node.js

Aleksandar Simovic, Slobodan Stojanovic
Node.js: Tools & Skills, 2nd Edition

Node.js: Tools & Skills, 2nd Edition

James Hibbard, Michael Wanyoike, Nilson Jacques, Jay Raj, Manjunath M
Your First Week With Node.js, 2nd Edition

Your First Week With Node.js, 2nd Edition

James Hibbard, Craig Buckler, Mark Brown, Nilson Jacques, James Kolce, Paul Orac, M. David Green, Florian Rappl

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788393935Supplemental Content