WTF is express-bed

If you’ve worked with Angular, and written unit tests, you’ve probably used TestBed.

I recently had to write an Express app using Typescript at work, which is something relatively new for me.

As I am a testing zealot and get scared if I don’t have good unit tests on my projects, I wanted to have a tool similar to Angular TestBed for configuring the tests in a predictable and speedy way.

Because I am foolish I decided to try and write my own.

This is the result of that :

https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-bed

If you implement your express routes as classes, and add a public create method to them, which is passed an Express app instance, and does the actual app.get('/swankyUrl', (req, res) => ..., then this tool should work for you too if you’re interested 🙂

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