Dmitriy Repin

BUILDING AND TESTING ASYNCHRONOUS NODE/EXPRESS ROUTING USING TYPESCRIPT

async/await all the way

12/19/2017

Introduction

• Promise
• Async / await
• A simple Node.js / Express.js application

Node / Express routing

• Anatomy of a simple Node.js / Express.js application
• Routing using traditional callbacks
• Routing using Promise.then().catch()
• Routing using Promise and async / await
• Routing using Promise and async / await - missing piece

Testing data access API layer with Mocha/Chai (writing both assertive and negative tests)

• Unit testing sequential code
• Unit testing callback code
• Unit testing Promise.then().catch() code
• Unit testing async/await code
• Unit testing async/await code - missing piece

Testing Node / Express routes using the request NPM package (writing both assertive and negative tests)

• Testing node/express routes that use callbacks
• Testing node/express routes that use async/wait
• Testing node/express routes that use async/wait - missing piece

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