express-test-helpers

Sensible test helpers for express

Installation

$ npm install --save @lykmapipo/express-test-helpers

Usage

import { 
  app, testGet, testPost, testPatch, 
  testPut, testDelete, testOption, testHead 
} from '@lykmapipo/express-test-helpers';

app.get('/v1/users', (req, res)=> { res.ok(); });
app.post('/v1/users', (req, res)=> { res.created(); });

testGet('/v1/users')
    .expect('Content-Type', /json/)
    .expect(200)
    .end((err, res) => {
        if (err) throw err;
    });

testPost('/v1/users', { name: 'John Doe' })
    .expect('Content-Type', /json/)
    .expect(201)
    .end((err, res) => {
        if (err) throw err;
    });

• With Mocha

import { clear, testGet } from '@lykmapipo/express-test-helpers';

describe('GET /v1/users', () => {
    
    beforeEach(() => clear());

    it('responds with json', done => {
        testGet('/v1/users')
            .expect('Content-Type', /json/)
            .expect(200, done);
    });
});

Testing

• Clone this repository

• Install all development dependencies

$ npm install

• Then run test

$ npm test

How to contribute

It will be nice, if you open an issue first so that we can know what is going on, then, fork this repo and push in your ideas. Do not forget to add a bit of test(s) of what value you adding.

LICENSE

MIT License

Copyright (c) lykmapipo & Contributors

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