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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

You're reading from  Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477321
Pages 764 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Li Daniel Li
Profile icon Daniel Li

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. The Importance of Good Code 2. The State of JavaScript 3. Managing Version History with Git 4. Setting Up Development Tools 5. Writing End-to-End Tests 6. Storing Data in Elasticsearch 7. Modularizing Our Code 8. Writing Unit/Integration Tests 9. Designing Our API 10. Deploying Our Application on a VPS 11. Continuous Integration 12. Security – Authentication and Authorization 13. Documenting Our API 14. Creating UI with React 15. E2E Testing in React 16. Managing States with Redux 17. Migrating to Docker 18. Robust Infrastructure with Kubernetes 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

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 thenblock.

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...

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