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Advanced Node.js Development
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Advanced Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Making the POST requests via supertest 

We're going to call request, passing in the app we want to make the request on. Next up, we're going to call .post, which sets up a POST request. We're going to go to /todos, and the new thing we're going to do is actually send data. In order to send data along with the request as the body we have to call send, and we're going to pass in an object. This object is going to get converted to JSON by supertest, so there's no need for us to worry about that—just another great reason to use the supertest library. We're going to set text equal to the text variable shown previously, and we can use the ES6 syntax to get that done:

describe('POST /todos', () => { it('should create a new todo',(done) => { var ...
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