JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

Writing a unit test

A unit test case is required to test a specific unit of code that offers some kind of functionality. In our case, we are planning to test a simple route or hapi app that greets our users. Let's divide our unit test case task into some measure code chunks so that we can get clarity on writing an appropriate unit test case:

1. Create a routes.spec.js file. The naming convention specifies the file that we are going to test, routes.js. It is recommended by our open source community to suffix the test file as spec.

2. We need to divide our unit tests cases with respect to all the routes present in routes.js and enclose our assertions in some test-driven code. An npm module called mocha.js can help us in this case. By the way, ...