Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 19.x - Second Edition

Integration tests for a Node.js application

Let's now have a look at a sample integration test implemented in Node.js. Here is the setup that we are going to look into:

Integration tests for an Express JS Application

Following are the steps to create such an integration test:

1. Let's first prepare our project folder structure. We create the project root and navigate to it:

$ mkdir ~/fod/ch07/integration-test-node && \    cd ~/fod/ch07/integration-test-node

2. Within this folder, we create three subfolders, tests, api, and database:

$ mkdir tests api database

3. Now, we open VS Code from the project root:

$ code .

4. To the database folder, add an ...