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Advanced Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
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Advanced Node.js Development

By: Andrew Mead

Overview of this book

Advanced Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to progress as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developer’s toolkit. If you're 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 was written around a single goal: turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. There's no better time to dive in. According to the 2018 Stack Overflow Survey, Node is in the top ten for back-end popularity and back-end salary. This book 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 delivers advanced skills that you need to become a professional Node developer. Along this journey you'll create your own API, you'll build a full real-time web app and create projects that apply the latest Async and Await technologies. Andrew Mead maps everything out for you in this book so that you can learn how to build powerful Node.js projects in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Testing PATCH /todos/:id


In this section, we, well I guess more appropriately you, are going to be writing two test cases that verify patch works as expected. We're going to take one Todo that's not completed and make it complete, and we'll take a second one that is complete and make it incomplete.

Now, in order to do that, we are going to need to tweak the seed data we have in our server.test file. The seed data right in server.test file is two Todo items; neither of them have the completed property specified, which means it's going to default to false. For the second item, we're going to go ahead and set it. We're going to set completed: true and we're also going to set completedAt equal to whatever value we want. You can choose any number at all. I'm going to go ahead and use 333:

const todos = [{
   _id: new ObjectID(),
   text: 'First test todo'
},{
   _id: new ObjectID(),
   text: 'Second test todo',
   completed: true,
   completedAt: 333
}];

Now we have two Todos that are going to let...