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Node.js for Beginners

You're reading from   Node.js for Beginners A comprehensive guide to building efficient, full-featured web applications with Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245171
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ulises Gascón Ulises Gascón
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Node.js Overview and JavaScript Language FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Node.js 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment 4. Chapter 3: JavaScript Fundamentals 5. Chapter 4: Asynchronous Programming 6. Part 2: Node.js Ecosystem and Architecture
7. Chapter 5: Node.js Core Libraries 8. Chapter 6: External Modules and npm 9. Chapter 7: Event-Driven Architecture 10. Chapter 8: Testing in Node.js 11. Part 3: Web Application Fundamentals
12. Chapter 9: Handling HTTP and REST APIs 13. Chapter 10: Building Web Applications with Express 14. Part 4: Building Solid Web Applications with Node.js
15. Chapter 11: Building a Web Application Project from Scratch 16. Chapter 12: Data Persistence with MongoDB 17. Chapter 13: User Authentication and Authorization with Passport.js 18. Chapter 14: Error Handling in Node.js 19. Chapter 15: Securing Web Applications 20. Part 5: Mastering Node.js Deployment and Portability
21. Chapter 16: Deploying Node.js Applications 22. Chapter 17: Dockerizing a Node.js Application 23. Index 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing our MongoDB integration layer

Yes, we have made the migration and everything seems to be running fine, but we need to ensure that the tests work as expected. Currently, the tests use the filesystem to store data, so we need to change the tests to make them use MongoDB.

Update the utilities

We will edit the test/utils.js file to use MongoDB instead of the filesystem. As we are now using MongoDB, we need to load the fixtures in the database to know the IDs. So now, the fixtures will keep the same structure, but they will be stored and collected in the database using populateDb and the new getFixtures function:

import mongoose from 'mongoose'
import {
  Whisper
} from '../database.js'
const ensureDbConnection = async () => {
   try {
        if (mongoose.connection.readyState !== 1) {
            await mongoose.connect(process...
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