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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

Using assertion libraries in testing Node modules

In the previous sections, we made two test cases to verify that utils.add and our utils.square method work as expected. We did that using an if condition, that is, if the value was not 44 that means something went wrong and we threw an error. In this section, we'll learn how to use an assertion library, which will take care of all of the if condition in utils.test.js code for us:

if (res !== 44)
throw new Error(`Expected 44, but got ${res}.`)
}

Because when we add more and more tests, the code will end up looking pretty similar and there's no reason to keep rewriting it. Assertion libraries let us make assertions about values, whether it's about their type, the value itself, whether an array contains an element, all sorts of things like that. They really are fantastic.

The one we'll be using is called expect...

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