Using Axios/Jest/CJS to make tests for some publicly available REST APIs

Notes

• This package is not intended to be used as a library.
• Rather published referense code, which can be easily run
• I might consider extracting some of techniques used here and create a tiny library later.

Warning on Node version

• Use node version 18 or later!
• Node-18 is the current LTS version, suitable for most users
• Node-18 will be supported till 2025-04-30
• Previous LTS version Node-16 now under Maintenance mode
• Support for Node-16 would end in less than a year: 2023-09-11
• See: https://github.com/nodejs/release#release-schedule
• Release info in json: https://github.com/nodejs/Release/blob/main/schedule.json

Why

• Test that referense public API are actually usable from your location
• Can be used as sample code on how to write basic tests for REST API
• You can use it as a sort of traffic generator ))

Using:

npx @aibulat/funtest-axios@latest

Stack:

• Javascript/CJS
• Axios HTTP client
• Jest test runner

Other packages

• I have a similar package which uses TS/ESM/Jest/Supertest for same task: @aibulat/funtest