Lately, I have been into node js, particularly to a MVC framework, Sails js. It’s pretty simple to use.

Installing Sails:

sudo npm install -g sails

To create a new Sails app,

sails new My-Awesome-Project

cd My-Awesome-Project

Launch your sails app:

sails lift

You can find various blogs and tutorials for sails js. Sailscast by Ponzicoder is highly recommended to begin with. In this post, I will be showing how to write tests for sails js apps (version >= 0.10.4).

First you need to install CLI for grunt globally.

sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

Install following dependencies

npm install mocha --save-dev

npm install assert --save-dev

npm install sinon --save-dev

Install grunt-mocha-istanbul

npm install grunt-mocha-istanbul --save-dev

Create a file mocha_istanbul.js in tasks/config with following contents:

module.exports = function(grunt) {
	grunt.config.set('mocha_istanbul', {
		coverage: {
			src: 'test', // the folder, not the files
			options: {
				coverageFolder: 'coverage',
				mask: '**/*.spec.js',
				root: 'api/'
				}
			}
		});
		grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-mocha-istanbul');
	};

Create a file test.js in tasks/register with following content

module.exports = function (grunt) {
	grunt.registerTask('test', [
		'mocha_istanbul:coverage'
	]);
};

Create a folder named test in root folder of your project and it should mimic the api folder generated by sails.

Create an api in sails

sails generate api Foo

Add an index action to the FooController

module.exports = {
	index: function(req, res){
		res.send('Hello, world!');
	}
};

Create a test file for FooController with name FooController.spec.js in test/controllers with following content.

var FooController = require('../../api/controllers/FooController');	
var sinon = require('sinon');	
var assert = require('assert');	
describe('The FooController', function() {
	describe('when we invoke the index action', function() {
		it('should return hello world message', function() {
			var send = sinon.spy();
			FooController.index(null,{
				'send': send
			});
			assert(send.called);
			assert(send.calledWith('Hello, world!'));
		});
	});	
});

From terminal, type in the command

grunt test

The whole project is available here and further reference can be found here

Happy coding! :)