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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment that allows you to use JavaScript to develop server-side web applications. This short guide will help you develop applications using JavaScript and Node.js, leverage your existing programming skills from .NET or Java, and make the most of these other platforms through understanding the Node.js programming model. You will learn how to build web applications and APIs in Node, discover packages in the Node.js ecosystem, test and deploy your Node.js code, and more. Finally, you will discover how to integrate Node.js and .NET code.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Node.js for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating test doubles


There are more tests we could write for the games service, but let's look at a different module for now. How would we go about testing our users middleware? The following code is from middleware/users.js:

module.exports = function(req, res, next) {
    let userId = req.cookies.userId;
    if (!userId) {
        userId = uuid.v4();
        res.cookie('userId', userId);
    }
    req.user = {
        id: userId
    };
    next();
};

In order to test this class, we will need to pass in arguments for the req, res, and next parameters with which our code interacts. We don't have a real request, response, or middleware pipeline available, so we need to create some stand-in values instead. Stand-in values such as this are generally called test doubles. Our code reads an attribute from the request and calls the cookie method on the response. We can create test doubles for these as follows, in a new test script under test/middleware/users.js:

'use strict';

const middleware = require...