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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

Test spies

In this section, which is the final section for the testing chapter, we'll learn some pretty advanced testing techniques. We'll be using these techniques as we build real-world apps, but for now let's start off with an example. We'll worry about the vocabulary for what we're about to do in just a second.

For the moment, we'll close all our current files and create a new directory in the root of the project. We'll make a new folder called spies. We'll talk about what exactly spies are and how they relate to testing in just a moment. Inside spies, we'll make two files: app.js (this is the file that we'll be testing) and a second one, called db.js. In our example, we can just assume that db.js is a file that has all sorts of methods for saving and reading data from the database.

Inside db.js, we'll create one function...

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