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Advanced Express Web Application Development

By : Andrew Keig
Book Image

Advanced Express Web Application Development

By: Andrew Keig

Overview of this book

Building an Express application that is reliable, robust, maintainable, testable, and can scale beyond a single server requires a bit of extra thought and effort. Express applications that need to survive in a production environment will need to reach out to the Node ecosystem and beyond, for support.You will start by laying the foundations of your software development journey, as you drive-out features under test. You will move on quickly to expand on your existing knowledge, learning how to create a web API and a consuming client. You will then introduce a real-time element in your application.Following on from this, you will begin a process of incrementally improving your application as you tackle security, introduce SSL support, and how to handle security vulnerabilities. Next, the book will take you through the process of scaling and then decoupling your application. Finally, you will take a look at various ways you can improve your application's performance and reliability.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Advanced Express Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Feature: List commits


As a vision user
I want to see a list of multiple repository commits in real time
So that I can review those commits

Let's add a test to ./test/github.js for our List commits feature. This resource will GET the 10 most recent commits for all repositories in a project via the route project/:id/commits and return a 200 OK status:

describe('when requesting an available resource /project/:id/commits', function(){
  it('should respond with 200', function(done){
    this.timeout(5000);
    request(app)
    .get('/project/' + id + '/commits')
    .expect('Content-Type', /json/)
    .expect(200)
    .end(function (err, res) {
      var commit = _.first(JSON.parse(res.text))
      assert(_.has(commit, 'message'));
      assert(_.has(commit, 'date'));
      assert(_.has(commit, 'login'));
      assert(_.has(commit, 'avatar_url'));
      assert(_.has(commit, 'ago'));
      assert(_.has(commit, 'repository'));
      done();
    });
  });
});

Let's implement the List commits feature...