cypress-mongo-seeder

A tool to quickly populate your mongo db from a set of .json files. The package prepared for seed database before each test on Cypress. You can use as a Cypress plugin or independently.

Setup

$ npm install --save-dev cypress-mongo-seeder
 
or
 
$ yarn add --dev cypress-mongo-seeder

Usage

seedAll

Read all json files in specified directory and insert them to mongodb. (File names are collection names)

seedAll: (
  mongoUri: string,
  dataFolder: string,
  dropCollection?: boolean
) => Promise<any>;

As a Cypress plugin

cypress/plugins/index.js

const path = require('path');
const seeder = require('cypress-mongo-seeder');
 
const mongouri = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/dummy-db';
const folder = './data';
const dropCollections = true;
 
module.exports = on => {
  on('task', {
    'seed:database': () => {
      return seeder.seedAll(mongouri, folder, dropCollections);
    },
  });
};

seedSingleCollection

Reads a json file and inserts content to mongo. (File name is collection name )

seedSingleCollection: (
  mongoUri: string,
  fileAbsolutePath: string,
  dropCollection?: boolean
) => Promise<any>;

const path = require('path');
const seeder = require('../build');
 
const mongouri = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/dummy-main';
const fileFullPath = path.resolve(__dirname + '/data/users.json');
const dropCollection = true;
 
seeder
  .seedSingleCollection(mongouri, fileFullPath, dropCollection)
  .then(seeded => {
    console.log('Seeded -> ', seeded);
  });

Contributing

1. Fork the project
2. Add feature(s)
3. Add tests for it
4. Submit pull request

Enjoy!