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Node.js Blueprints

You're reading from   Node.js Blueprints Develop stunning web and desktop applications with the definitive Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783287338
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev
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Preface 1. Common Programming Paradigms FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing a Basic Site with Node.js and Express 3. Writing a Blog Application with Node.js and AngularJS 4. Developing a Chat with Socket.IO 5. Creating a To-do Application with Backbone.js 6. Using Node.js as a Command-line Tool 7. Showing a Social Feed with Ember.js 8. Developing Web App Workflow with Grunt and Gulp 9. Automate Your Testing with Node.js 10. Writing Flexible and Modular CSS 11. Writing a REST API 12. Developing Desktop Apps with Node.js Index

Testing with Mocha


Mocha is a little more advanced testing framework than Jasmine. It is more configurable, supports TDD or BDD testing, and even has several types of reporters. It is also quite popular and portable for client-side usage in the browser, which makes it a good candidate for our testing.

Installation

Similar to Jasmine, we need the Node.js's package manager to install Mocha. By running the following command, the framework will be set up globally:

npm install -g mocha

Once the installation finishes, we can run mocha ./tests. By default, the tool searches for JavaScript files and tries to run them. Here, let's use the same example used with Jasmine and pass it through Mocha. It actually uses the same syntax of the describe and it blocks. However, it doesn't come with its own assertion library. In fact, there is a built-in Node.js module for such purposes named assert. There are also libraries developed by other developers, for example, should.js, chai, or expect.js.

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