Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

Starting the back end with Mocha

When we want to run a test, the server should start automatically. There are two options to implement this behavior:

• We add the npm run server command to the test script inside our package.json file.
• We import all the necessary files to launch the server within our app.test.js. This allows us to run further assertions or commands against the back end.

The best option is to start the server within our test and not rely on a second command, because we can run further tests on the back end. We to import a further package to allow the server to start within our test:

require('babel-plugin-require-context-hook/register')();

We use and execute this package because we load the Sequelize models using the require.context ...