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How and why you should add unit testing to your node app
Brian Bawuah edited this page Jun 17, 2020
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We use unit testing to test our functions
Mocha is a javascript testing framework that runs on Node.js. With Mocha you can test to check that your functions are doing what they are supposed to do
It is best practise to keep the test environment in your devDependencies.
npm install --save-dev mocha chaiAfter that, I created a folder in the root of our project called 'test'
The text folder is a default folder for Mocha
Next I added a test script to our package.json
{
"name": "pixby",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Only baby pictures allowed.",
"main": "",
"scripts": {
"start": "node index.js",
"test": "mocha",
"reload": "nodemon"
},
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/joannlap/Pixby.git"
},
"author": "joannlap",
"license": "MIT",
"homepage": "https://github.com/joannlap/Pixby",
"dependencies": {
"axios": "^0.19.2",
"bcrypt": "^5.0.0",
"body-parser": "^1.19.0",
"cookie-parser": "^1.4.5",
"dotenv": "^8.2.0",
"express": "^4.17.1",
"express-session": "^1.17.1",
"handlebars": "^4.7.6",
"hbs": "^4.1.1",
"jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.1",
"mongodb": "^3.5.7",
"mongoose": "^5.9.18",
"multer": "^1.4.2"
},
"devDependencies": {
"chai": "^4.2.0",
"eslint": "^6.8.0",
"eslint-config-airbnb-base": "^14.1.0",
"eslint-plugin-import": "^2.20.2",
"mocha": "^8.0.1",
"nodemon": "^2.0.4"
}
}