/nodeExpressPracticeTDD

Getting some practice working with the express module using Test Driven Development

Primary LanguageJavaScript

nodeExpressPractice

This was made as a learning experience to use Test Driven Development when building projects, as well as to practice the Express node module and to get experience working with a database.

Getting Started

  • Install git
    • Installation Guide for git
  • Install nodeJS
  • Go to the command line and navigate to the folder you either cloned or downloaded
    • cd yourFolderName
  • Run npm install
    • That should download all the dependencies.
  • Install Redis
    • This app uses Redis as database so you should install that.

Running the App

  • Start the database up, once you have installed redis, input the following to the console... 
    redis-server
  • There is an executable for this file that you can run... 
    ./bin/www
    ...running that in the console should start the app. It defaults to http://localhost:3000

Running the Tests

Tests can be run after starting up the Redis server by inputing the following into the console.

npm test

Built With

  • NodeJs - Runtime environment
  • Express - Web Framework
  • Redis - Database
  • Supertests - Used for testing
  • Mocha - Used for testing

Version

  • 1.0

Author

  • Daniel Hsu - I wrote this.

Acknowledgement

  • Code School - Was made following this tutorial.