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Learning Node.js for .NET  Developers

You're reading from   Learning Node.js for .NET Developers Build server side applications with Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785280092
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Why Node.js? FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Node.js 3. A JavaScript Primer 4. Introducing Node.js Modules 5. Creating Dynamic Websites 6. Testing Node.js Applications 7. Setting up an Automated Build 8. Mastering Asynchronicity 9. Persisting Data 10. Creating Real-time Web Apps 11. Deploying Node.js Applications 12. Authentication in Node.js 13. Creating JavaScript Packages 14. Node.js and Beyond Index

Running integration tests from Gulp


Gulp tasks are just ordinary JavaScript functions, so can contain any functionality we like. Let's look at a more complex use case. We'll create a task that starts up our server, runs integration tests, and then closes the server. For this, we'll need the Gulp Shell plugin:

> npm install gulp-shell --save-dev

First, we update our integration test script so that we can pass in the port number of the test server. This makes use of the PhantomJS 'system' module as follows (in integration-test/game.js):

var rootUrl = 'http://localhost:' +
                  require('system').env.TEST_PORT || 3000;

Now we can define a Gulp task to run the server and the integration test:

const shell = require('gulp-shell');

...

gulp.task('integration-test',
          ['lint-integration-test', 'test'], (done) => {
  const TEST_PORT = 5000;
  let server = require('http')
    .createServer(require('./src/app.js'))
    .listen(TEST_PORT, function() {
      gulp.src('integration...
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