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The Node Craftsman Book

You're reading from   The Node Craftsman Book An Advanced Node.js Tutorial

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128149
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manuel Kiessling Manuel Kiessling
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Node.js Basics in Detail FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with NPM and Packages
3. Test-driven Node.js Development
4. Object-oriented JavaScript 5. Synchronous and Asynchronous Operations Explained 6. Using and Creating Event Emitters 7. Optimizing Code Performance and Control Flow Management Using the Async Library 8. Node.js and MySQL 9. Node.js and MongoDB 10. Part 2: Building a Complete Web Application with Node.js and Angular 11. Milestone 1 – A First Passing Test Against the Server
12. Milestone 2 – The API Responds with Actual Database Content 13. Milestone 3 – Setting the Stage for a Continuous Delivery Workflow 14. Milestone 4 – Giving Users a Frontend 15. Milestone 5 – More Work on the Backend 16. Milestone 6 – Completing the Backend and Finalizing the Application

Milestone 1 – A First Passing Test Against the Server

We will approach the requirements through a set of milestones. The first milestone we will try to reach is a very first passing end-to-end Jasmine test case against our web service API.

Let's see what we need to reach that milestone:

  • We need to be able to execute Jasmine test cases
  • We need a Jasmine spec that requests our HTTP backend
  • We need an HTTP backend that responds to the request

In order to verify that we are good to go in regards to executing Jasmine test cases, let's create a subfolder spec/e2e in our project directory:

mkdir -p spec/e2e

Next, we create the file that will hold the end-to-end tests for our yet-to-be-written API server. We name it apiSpec.js and store it within the spec/e2e folder we just created:

'use strict';
describe('The API', function () {

  it('should just work', function () {
...
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