Express API Testing

• supertest

  7 13,010 8.1 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

  6 2,928 2.1 JavaScript

  ✅ Beyond the basics of Node.js testing. Including a super-comprehensive best practices list and an example app (April 2022)

  

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• ava

  12 20,355 7.9 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

  58 9,068 9.8 TypeScript

  A Vite-native test framework. It's fast!

  

  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

  2 2,826 5.1 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

  4 5,741 8.3 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

  10 9,327 8.9 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.

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• pactum

  4 386 6.7 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

  1 629 0.0 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 4.6 TypeScript

  Minimal API RESTful with MongoDB and tested with Jest

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

• mocha

  51 22,024 7.9 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 19 0.0 TypeScript

  Example of an Restful API with Nest.js and TypeORM

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

• jest

  138 42,013 9.7 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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