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Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Bethany Griggs
4 (1)
Book Image

Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

4 (1)
By: Bethany Griggs

Overview of this book

A key technology for building web applications and tooling, Node.js brings JavaScript to the server enabling full-stack development in a common language. This fourth edition of the Node Cookbook is updated with the latest Node.js features and the evolution of the Node.js framework ecosystems. This practical guide will help you to get started with creating, debugging, and deploying your Node.js applications and cover solutions to common problems, along with tips to avoid pitfalls. You'll become familiar with the Node.js development model by learning how to handle files and build simple web applications and then explore established and emerging Node.js web frameworks such as Express.js and Fastify. As you advance, you'll discover techniques for detecting problems in your applications, handling security concerns, and deploying your applications to the cloud. This recipe-based guide will help you to easily navigate through various core topics of server-side web application development with Node.js. By the end of this Node book, you'll be well-versed with core Node.js concepts and have gained the knowledge to start building performant and scalable Node.js applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 8: Testing with Node.js

Testing enables you to identify bugs in your code more quickly and efficiently. Test cases should be written to verify that each piece of code is yielding the expected output or results. Tests can act as a form of documentation for the logic of your program.

Unit testing is a specific type of testing where individual components or units of code are tested. Small unit tests provide a granular specification for your program to test against. Ensuring your code base is covered by unit tests aids the development, debugging, and refactoring process by providing a baseline measure of quality that you can work off of. Having a comprehensive test suite can lead to identifying bugs sooner, which can save time and money since the earlier a bug is found, the cheaper it is to fix.

This chapter will introduce several unit testing frameworks. Testing frameworks provide components and utilities such as test runners for running automated tests. The later recipes...