Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

Testing an MEVN Application Chapter 9

Let's move on to add the functional test part. We will be writing the test for the
/dummy_test method.

In movies.spec.js, let's add the following lines of code:

var controller = require("./../../../controllers/movies.js");

let chaiHttp = require('chai-http');

let chai = require('chai');

var expect = chai.expect;

var should = chai.should();

var express = require("express");

let server = require('./../../../server.js');

var app = express();

chai.use(chaiHttp);

function buildResponse() {

return http_mocks.createResponse({eventEmitter:

require('events').EventEmitter})

}

describe('controllers.movies', function(){

it('exists', function(){

expect(controller).to.exist

})

})

describe('/GET dummy_test', () => {

it('it should respond with a name object', (done) => {

chai.request(server)

.get('/dummy_test')

.end((err, res) => {

res.should.have.status(200);

res.body.should.be.an('object');

done();

});

});

});

In the preceding code, we have added a new package called chai-http, which is used to

mock the request. Let's install this package, as follows:

$ npm install chai-http --save