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Learning Node.js Development

You're reading from   Learning Node.js Development Learn the fundamentals of Node.js, and deploy and test Node.js applications on the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395540
Length 658 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Set Up 2. Node Fundamentals – Part 1 FREE CHAPTER 3. Node Fundamentals – Part 2 4. Node Fundamentals – Part 3 5. Basics of Asynchronous Programming in Node.js 6. Callbacks in Asynchronous Programming 7. Promises in Asynchronous Programming 8. Web Servers in Node 9. Deploying Applications to Web 10. Testing the Node Applications – Part 1 11. Testing the Node Applications – Part 2 12. Another Book You May Enjoy

Organizing test with describe()

In this section, we will learn how to use describe(). describe is a function injected into our test files, just like the it function is. It comes from mocha and it's really fantastic. Essentially, it lets us group tests together. That makes it a lot easier to scan the test output. If we run our npm test command in the Terminal, we get our tests:

We have seven tests and currently they're all grouped together. It's really hard to look for the tests in the utils file and it's impossible to find the tests for asyncAdd without scanning all of the text. What we'll do is call describe(). This will let us make groups of tests. We can give that group a name. It will make our test output much more readable.

In the utils.test.js file, right after the utils constant, we'll call describe():

const expect = require('expect&apos...
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