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Web Development with MongoDB and Node - Third Edition

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Web Development with MongoDB and Node - Third Edition

Overview of this book

Node.js builds fast, scalable network applications while MongoDB is the perfect fit as a high-performance, open source NoSQL database solution. The combination of these two technologies offers high performance and scalability and helps in building fast, scalable network applications. Together they provide the power for manage any form of data as well as speed of delivery. This book will help you to get these two technologies working together to build web applications quickly and easily, with effortless deployment to the cloud. You will also learn about angular 4, which consumes pure JSON APOIs from a hapi server. The book begins by setting up your development environment, running you through the steps necessary to get the main application server up-and-running. Then you will see how to use Node.js to connect to a MongoDB database and perform data manipulations. From here on, the book will take you through integration with third-party tools to interact with web apps. You will see how to use controllers and view models to generate reusable code that will reduce development time. Toward the end, the book supplies tests to properly execute your code and take your skills to the next level with the most popular frameworks for developing web applications. By the end of the book, you will have a running web application developed with MongoDB, Node.js, and some of the most powerful and popular frameworks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Testing the application


With all of that background information out of the way, let's focus on writing some real tests for the application we've built. In the following sections, we will write tests for the routes, servers, models, and controllers in our application.

Testing the routes

Let's start things a little slowly by taking a look at one of the most basic files in our application, the routes.js file. This file simply defines the number of routes that the application should respond to. This will be one of the easiest files to write tests for.

Since the routes.js file is in the server folder within our main application, let's put its corresponding test file in a similar location. Within the tests/server folder, create a file named routes.test.js. Since the routes.test.js file will be testing the functionalities of our routes.js file, we will need it to require the same modules.

Include the following code in test/server/routes.test.js:

const home = require('../../controllers/home'), 
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