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How can i config tests in nodejs api with jest

Before we start the config we need to now some things:

Why test my app? 🤔

To make your service scalable, and more consistent!

What is jest? 💭

Because is the most complete and easy to use!

First of all you need to installing the packages below on your project:

  • Jest the test framework:
  yarn add jest -D
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  • jest types is a inteliscense to use jest:
  yarn add @types/jest -D
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  • Supertest is a framework to simulate http requisitions:
  yarn add supertest -D
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Now we need to make initial jest config.

To do that we execute the command below:

  yarn jest --init
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After that the console make some questions to you, you need to answer like the image below:

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Now you will find a file called "jest.config.js" on your root project.

The next step is ajust this config file like below:

  • Bail is the option we set to define the number of errors that make the tests break, in this case i always like to set one:
 bail: 1,
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  • Clearmocks is the option that clear mocks after tests, this option we set true:
clearMocks: true,
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  • collectCoverage this option enable or disable the coe coverage, i like to set as true:
collectCoverage: true,
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  • collectCoverageFrom this option define the path or file s to collect the coverage, usually i set the path where stay my business logic:
collectCoverageFrom: [
    'src/app/Controllers/*.js',
  ],
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  • coverageDirectory is the place where jest can put the coverage result, i usualy put coverage inside the test folder:
 coverageDirectory: '__tests__/coverage',
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  • coverageReporters this option set the type of reporters for coverage result, i like to user reports below:
 coverageReporters: ['text', 'lcov', 'json'],
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  • testMatch this option set the test files extensions:
  testMatch: ['**/__tests__/**/*.test.js'],

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Now we can create the folder structure as the image below:

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And that is it, now you reandy to starting test your api with jest!

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