Unit testing the request handler
First, we'll move the src/handlers/users/create.js
module into its own directory. Then, we will correct the file paths specified in the import
statements to point to the correct file. Lastly, we will create an index.unit.test.js
file next to our module to house the unit tests.
Let's take a look at the createUser
function inside our request handler module. It has the following structure:
import create from '../../../engines/users/create'; function createUser(req, res, db) { create(req, db) .then(onFulfilled, onRejected) .catch(...) }
First, it will call the create
function that was imported from src/engines/users/create/index.js
. Based on the result, it will invoke either the onFulfilled
or onRejected
callbacks inside the then
block.
Although our createUser
function depends on the create
function, when writing a unit test, our test should test only the relevant unit, not its dependencies. Therefore, if the result of our tests relies on thecreate
function, we...