Getting Started with hapi.js

Testing hapi applications with lab

As I mentioned earlier, testing is considered paramount in the hapi ecosystem, with every module in the ecosystem having to maintain 100% code coverage at all times, as with all module dependencies.

Fortunately, hapi provides us with some tools to make the testing of hapi apps much easier through a module called shot, which simulates network requests to a hapi server. Taking our first example of the hello world server given in Chapter 1, Introducing hapi.js, let's write a simple test for it:

const Code = require('code'); const Lab = require('lab'); const Hapi = require('hapi'); const lab = exports.lab = Lab.script(); lab.test('It will return Hello World', (done) => { const server = new Hapi.Server(); server.connection(); ...