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Advanced Node.js Development

You're reading from   Advanced Node.js Development Master Node.js by building real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393935
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Set Up 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 FREE CHAPTER 3. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2 4. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3 5. Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io 6. Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage 7. Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App 8. The Join Page and Passing Room Data 9. ES7 classes 10. Async/Await Project Setup 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Testing GET /todos


With our GET /todos route now in place, it is time to add a test case for it. Now, before we can actually write the test case, we have to deal with a different problem. The first thing we do inside of our server.test file is delete all the Todos, and this happens before every single test. The GET /todos route pretty much lives off the fact that there are Todos it can return. It will handle Node Todos, but for our test case, we want some data in that database.

In order to add this data, what we're going to do is modify beforeEach, adding some seed data. This means that our database is still going to be predictable; it's always going to look exactly the same when it starts, but it will have some items in it.

Adding seed data for the GET /todos test case

Now, in order to do that, the first thing that we're going to do is make up an array of dummy Todos. These Todos only need the text property since everything else is going to get populated by Mongoose. I can create a constant...

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