listening on hard-coded ports in tests considered harmful

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Opened this issue 13 years ago · 2 comments

I already have a service running on :8080. The test suite fails because it tries to listen on that port. Don't do that.

Answer 1 · 2011-11-28T14:34:08.000Z

Quick fix here. I've updated 8080 to 9090. @substack how would you handle this? I could use node-portfinder, but it seems like overkill.

Answer 2 · 2011-11-28T17:26:45.000Z

My tests use random ports >10000 but portfinder sounds even better.