使用我的Node.js REST API设置Mocha / ChaiHttp单元测试时遇到问题

Question

I am trying to set up unit testing for my node.js REST API using mocha and chaihttp, but my sample test which should pass seems to be failing.

My code for the unit tests is here:

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();

var chai = require("chai");
var chaiHttp = require('chai-http');
chai.use(chaiHttp);

describe("Test", function() {
    it('Simple test', function(done) {
        chai.request('http://localhost:3000/')
            .get('/')
            .end(function(err, res) {
                chai.expect(res).to.have.status(200);
                done();
            });
    });
});

And the error I get when running the tests:

  1) Test Simple test:
     Uncaught AssertionError: expected { Object (domain, _events, ...) } to have status code 200 but got 404
      at tests.js:13:42
      at Test.Request.callback (/Users/laptop/Desktop/Toptal/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:631:3)
      at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/Users/laptop/Desktop/Toptal/node_modules/superagent/lib/node/index.js:795:18)
      at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:974:12)
      at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)
      at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)

From what it looks like, it's unable to connect to my local host or something because I'm getting a 404 error whereas if I manually go to localhost:3000 in my browser, I'm served a simple Hello world index page.

Here is my index.js route if it might be relevant:

var express = require('express');

var router = express.Router();

router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
    res.status(200).render('index.ejs');
});

module.exports = router;

Answer 1

A minor adjustment to make would be to make sure your request is against the base URL and not the base URL with a slash on the end. The chai-http docs have examples like this:

chai.request('http://localhost:8080')
  .get('/')

The code posted here has:

chai.request('http://localhost:3000/') /* Includes the resource `/` */
            .get('/')

Try and adjust it to be:

chai.request('http://localhost:3000') /* Just the base URL */
            .get('/')

For debugging, you could also try and add a few other endpoints and see if they work instead.