Testing in Node.js with Testcontainers

• testcontainers-node

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  Testcontainers is a NodeJS library that supports tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

  

Luckily, Testcontainers is a great project that makes setting up external resources more comfortable by providing a programmatic interface to run Docker containers in testing scenarios. In this article, we'll be looking at a community port of Testcontainers for Node.js (testcontainers-node), and how we can run tests that rely on both a single Redis and a Redis Cluster.

• mocha

  139 22,435 7.8 JavaScript

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

  

The examples below will leverage mocha as a test runner, chai as an assertion library, and ioredis as our backing Redis client.

• SurveyJS

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• testcontainers-node-redis-example

  1 0 1.8 JavaScript

Before you go any further, you can skip this article altogether and go straight to some working examples on GitHub if that's more your style.

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