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Node Cookbook

Node Cookbook

By : Bethany Griggs
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Node Cookbook

Node Cookbook

4.5 (11)
By: Bethany Griggs

Overview of this book

A key technology for building web applications and tooling, Node.js brings JavaScript to the server enabling full-stack development in a common language. This fourth edition of the Node Cookbook is updated with the latest Node.js features and the evolution of the Node.js framework ecosystems. This practical guide will help you to get started with creating, debugging, and deploying your Node.js applications and cover solutions to common problems, along with tips to avoid pitfalls. You'll become familiar with the Node.js development model by learning how to handle files and build simple web applications and then explore established and emerging Node.js web frameworks such as Express.js and Fastify. As you advance, you'll discover techniques for detecting problems in your applications, handling security concerns, and deploying your applications to the cloud. This recipe-based guide will help you to easily navigate through various core topics of server-side web application development with Node.js. By the end of this Node book, you'll be well-versed with core Node.js concepts and have gained the knowledge to start building performant and scalable Node.js applications.
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Stubbing HTTP requests

It is common for the Node.js applications you're building to rely on and consume an external service or API. When unit testing, you do not typically want your test to send a request to an external service. Requests to the external service you're consuming can be metered or rate-limited, and you do not want your test cases to consume any allowance.

It's also possible that your tests would require access to service credentials. This means every developer on the project would need access to those credentials before they could run the test suite.

To be able to unit test your code without sending a request to an external service, you can fake a request and response. This concept is known as stubbing. Stubbing can be used to mimic the API calls, without actually sending the request. Stubbing comes with the additional benefit of reducing any request latency, potentially making the tests run faster than if they were to send real requests. In the...

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