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RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10, Third Edition

You're reading from   RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10, Third Edition Learn to create robust RESTful web services with Node.js, MongoDB, and Express.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623322
Length 178 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Valentin Bojinov Valentin Bojinov
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. REST – What You Did Not Know FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Node.js 3. Building a Typical Web API 4. Using NoSQL Databases 5. Restful API Design Guidelines 6. Implementing a Full Fledged RESTful Service 7. Preparing a RESTful API for Production 8. Consuming a RESTful API 9. Securing the Application 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing a Mongoose model with Mocha

Mocha is one of the most popular testing frameworks for JavaScript; its main goal is to provide an easy way to test asynchronous JavaScript code. Let's install Mocha globally so that we can make it available to any Node.js application that we may develop in the future:

npm install -g mocha

We will also need an assertion library that can be used together with Mocha. The assertion library provides functions for validating actual values, against expected ones, when they are not equal, the assertion library will cause test failure.  Should.js assertion library module is easy to use and it will be our choice, so let's install it globally too:

npm install -g should

Now that we have our testing modules installed, we need to specify our testcase file path in the package.json file. Let's modify it by adding a test element pointing...

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