Building a complete Node.js Api + testing without frameworks

Index

• About
• Checklist
• Postman

About

This project is based on Erick Wendel's Video.

The idea of this project is to build a NodeJS API using only native libs and without any frameworks. I expect to improve my acknowledge about NodeJS native libs and undestand more how the famous HTTP frameworks works internally.

Checklist

• Web API

  • it should have an endpoint for storing heroes' data
  • it should have an endpoint for retrieving heroes' data
  • it should have an endpoint for updating heroes' data
  • it should have an endpoint for deleting heroes' data
  • it should test when the application throws an error

• Testing

  • Unit

    • it should test all files on the routes layer
    • it should test all files on the repositories layer
    • it should test all files on the factories layer
    • Plus
      • it should reach 100% code coverage (it's currently not possible to get code coverage metrics using only the native Node.js, see c8 for this task)

  • Integration / E2E

    • it should test the endpoint for storing heroes' data
    • it should test the endpoint for retrieving heroes' data
    • it should test the endpoint for updating heroes' data
    • it should test the endpoint for deleting heroes' data
    • it should test when the application throws an error

Postman

Download the postman collection file here

This collection has the Heroes endpoints.

Have fun!