Charles' Mocha Project

Description

Charles' third Mocha demo project.

• Create a server using node.js
• Use a local MongoDB to store the data on the server
• Use Postman to send http request to the server
• Write some API in the routes folder

Main tutorial

Install Chai

Chai, a BDD-style assertion library for Node. To install it:

npm install chai --save-dev

npm install chai-http --save-dev

Run MongoDB Community Edition

• Set up the MongoDB environment. MongoDB requires a data directory to store all data. MongoDB’s default data directory path is the absolute path \data\db on the drive from which you start MongoDB. Create this folder
• Start MongoDB.~\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin\mongod.exe

Use Postman to send a http request

1. Start the MongoDB as mentioned above
2. Start the server by running npm start in the CLI
3. Simply input the request, e.g. localhost:8080/book, in the Postman.

Run the tests

1. Start the MongoDB as mentioned above
2. Start the tests by running npm test in the CLI

Reference

Documents and links

• Click here to read the main tutorial: Test a Node RESTful API with Mocha and Chai
• Click here to know see how to install and setup for MongoDB Community Edition.
• Click here to solve the error "DeprecationWarning: open() is deprecated in mongoose"
• Click here to know more about MongoDB connections
• Click here to know more about MongoDB Connection String URI Format