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Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

You're reading from   Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node Build scalable and powerful web apps with modern web stack: MongoDB, Vue, Node.js, and Express

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831147
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aneeta Sharma Aneeta Sharma
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Preface 1. Introducing MEVN FREE CHAPTER 2. Building an Express Application 3. Introducing MongoDB 4. Introducing REST APIs 5. Building the Real Application 6. Building Authentication with passport.js 7. Building OAuth Strategies with passport.js 8. Introducing Vuex 9. Testing an MEVN Application 10. Going Live 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing chai

Let's discuss chai. chai is an assertion library, used with mocha. We could also use the native assertion library , but chai adds a lot of flexibility.

chai makes it a lot easier to write test definitions. Let's install chai and modify the preceding test to make it look more simple and easy to understand:

$ npm install chai -g

We passed the -g option to install it globally, since we do not have a package.json configuration.

Let's use chai in our previous test. In add.spec.js, add the following lines of code:

var expect = require('chai').expect;
var addUtility = require("./../add.js");

describe('Add', function(){
describe('addUtility', function(){
it('should have a sum method', function(){
expect(addUtility).to.be.an('object');
expect(addUtility).to.have.property('sum&apos...
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