Node learning

Setup

Installing Node.js

The best way to install Node.js is to use one of the installers from nodejs.org, https://nodejs.org/en/

Test: Run node -v. The version should be higher than v0.10.32.

Updating npm

Node comes with npm installed so you should have a version of npm. However, npm gets updated more frequently than Node does, so you'll want to make sure it's the latest version.

$ npm install npm -g

Test: Run npm -v. The version should be higher than 2.1.8.

Installing Mocha & Chai

Install testing framework, and an expectation library called Chai that serves as a nice replacement for Node's standard assert function.

$ cd
$ npm install -g mocha
$ npm install -g chai

Add global node modules path to .bash_profile

# Node
export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules

Run Tests

$ mocha

Simple response object
  ✓ should return body
  ✓ should return content type
  ✓ should return authorization


3 passing (8ms)

Running locally