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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)

Testing with Mocha

Mocha is a popular open source JavaScript test framework for both Node.js and the browser. Mocha comes with many features.

In this recipe, we're going to write test cases using Mocha for a simple calculator program.

Getting ready

  1. Let's first create a directory to work in and initialize our project directory:
    $ mkdir testing-with-mocha
    $ cd testing-with-mocha
    $ npm init --yes
  2. We need to have a program that we can test. We'll create a small calculator program that we can use to learn how to unit test with Mocha. Create a file named calculator.js:
    $ touch calculator.js
  3. Now, we can add the following to calculator.js for our calculator program:
    module.exports.add = (number1, number2) => {
        return number1 + number2;
    };
    module.exports.subtract = (number1, number2) => {
        return number1 - number2;
    };
    module.exports.multiply = (number1, number2) => {
        return number1...