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Learning Node.js Development
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Learning Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
January 2018
Beginner
658 pages
13h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a test file for spies

We'll start it with creating a new file. Inside the spies directory, we'll make a new file called app.test.js, and we can start playing around with spies. Now, spies comes built-in with expect, so all we have to do is load it in:

const expect = require('expect');

From here we can create our very first test. We'll put this in a describe block so it's easier to find over in our test output:

const expect = require('expect');describe('')

We'll call this describe block App and we'll add my callback function:

describe('App', () => {});

Now we can add individual test cases. First up, we'll call it and make a new test where we can just play around with spies:

describe('App', () => {  it('')  });

We won't be calling the ...

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