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Learning Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
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Learning Node.js Development

By: Andrew Mead

Overview of this book

Learning Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to get started as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developers' toolkit. If you are looking to create real-world Node applications, or you want to switch careers or launch a side project to generate some extra income, then you're in the right place. This book has been written around a single goal—turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. Learning Node.js Development is built from the ground up around the latest version of Node.js (version 9.x.x). You'll be learning all the cutting-edge features available only in the latest software versions. This book cuts through the mass of information available around Node and delivers the essential skills that you need to become a Node developer. It takes you through creating complete apps and understanding how to build, deploy, and test your own Node apps. It maps out everything in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Test spies

In this section, which is the final section for the testing chapter, we'll learn some pretty advanced testing techniques. We'll be using these techniques as we build real-world apps, but for now let's start off with an example. We'll worry about the vocabulary for what we're about to do in just a second.

For the moment, we'll close all our current files and create a new directory in the root of the project. We'll make a new folder called spies. We'll talk about what exactly spies are and how they relate to testing in just a moment. Inside spies, we'll make two files: app.js (this is the file that we'll be testing) and a second one, called db.js. In our example, we can just assume that db.js is a file that has all sorts of methods for saving and reading data from the database.

Inside db.js, we'll create one function...