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Daniel Li
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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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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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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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