Advanced Node.js Development

Adding seed data for the GET /todos test case

Now, in order to do that, the first thing that we're going to do is make up an array of dummy Todos. These Todos only need the text property since everything else is going to get populated by Mongoose. I can create a constant called todos, setting it equal to an array, and we're going to have an array of objects where each object has a text property. For example, this one could have a text of First test todo, and then I can add on a second object as the second item in the array, with a text property equal to Second test todo:

const todos = [{
  text: 'First test todo'
},{
  text: 'Second test todo'
}];

Now before we can actually write the test case, we have to modify beforeEach using a brand new Mongoose ...