Express API Testing

• supertest

  20 13,544 4.4 JavaScript

  🕷 Super-agent driven library for testing node.js HTTP servers using a fluent API. Maintained for @forwardemail, @ladjs, @spamscanner, @breejs, @cabinjs, and @lassjs.

  

Supertest is quite popular and easy to use test tool, you can do integration and E2E test as well, you just need to pass it the server instance or a string to make a request and assert over the response.

• nodejs-integration-tests-best-practices

  15 3,200 3.3 JavaScript

  ✅ Beyond the basics of Node.js testing. Including a super-comprehensive best practices list and an example app (March 2024)

  

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• ava

  34 20,620 8.2 JavaScript

  Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence 🚀

  

Last but not least important are ava, uvu and tape; they are a really light and fast test runners.

• vitest

  109 11,784 9.8 TypeScript

  Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.

  

Vitest is a close competitor to Jest, it's faster and younger than jest, and it use vite under the hood to work, so for pure Node.js apps (100% backend) could have some caveats with ES modules.

• uvu

  21 2,936 3.0 JavaScript

  uvu is an extremely fast and lightweight test runner for Node.js and the browser

Last but not least important are ava, uvu and tape; they are a really light and fast test runners.

• tape

  17 5,757 8.5 JavaScript

  tap-producing test harness for node and browsers

  

Last but not least important are ava, uvu and tape; they are a really light and fast test runners.

• Sinon.JS

  28 9,556 8.4 JavaScript

  Test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript.

  

Mocha is a test runner, Chai is an assertion library, Sinon is a mocking library, this normally the combination you would need to use if you choose mocha, but there are others.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• pactum

  11 498 7.1 JavaScript

  REST API Testing Tool for all levels in a Test Pyramid

  

Pactum is quite powerful allowing different kind of E2E tests, you pass the base URL to make a request and assert over the response, it has more assertion functions than supertest and also supports GraphQL

• chai-http

  2 632 3.8 JavaScript

  HTTP Response assertions for the Chai Assertion Library.

  

chai-http adds the capability to make HTTP requests to Chai while keep using the assertion functions from Chai

• fakeshop-api

  2 0 9.0 TypeScript

  Minimal API RESTful with MongoDB and tested with Jest

Integration test with jest and supertest E2E test with jest and Pactum

• mocha

  138 22,421 7.6 JavaScript

  ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser

  

Mocha is a test runner, Chai is an assertion library, Sinon is a mocking library, this normally the combination you would need to use if you choose mocha, but there are others.

• nest-api-example

  4 72 9.7 TypeScript

  Example of an Restful API with Nest.js and TypeORM

Integration test with jest and supertest E2E test with jest and Pactum

• jest

  473 43,553 9.6 TypeScript

  Delightful JavaScript Testing.

  

Jest is a test framework because it already includes the test runner, assertion and mocking functions, it's quite popular because you don't need to wire anything to start executing tests, but it has some caveats

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