Test With Mongo

Programatically spin up a new mongo instance and easily start a test with a clean db

Works on all platforms due to mongodb-prebuilt

Installation

npm install --save test-with-mongo

Usage

Import test-with mongo and create a new class instance. The only needed param is the port to run on, which is defaulted to 27017

require('mocha');
const chai = require('chai');
const { TestWithMongo } = require('./dist');
const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
 
const { expect } = chai;
const PORT = 26016;
 
describe('test with mongo tests!', () => {
    const testDoc = { val: 1 };
    const insertDoc = () => collection.insert(testDoc);
    const getDoc = () => collection.findOne(testDoc);
    const testWithMongo = new TestWithMongo(PORT);
    const DB_NAME = 'testDb';
 
    let db;
    let collection
 
    before(() => {
        return testWithMongo.startMongoServer();
    });
 
    after(() => {
        return testWithMongo.clean();
    });
 
    beforeEach(() => {
        const connectionString = testWithMongo.getConnectionString(DB_NAME);
        return MongoClient.connect(connectionString)
            .then((retDb) => db = retDb)
            .then(() => db.createCollection('testCollection'))
            .then((retCollection) => collection = retCollection)
    });
 
    afterEach(() => {
        return testWithMongo.dropDb(DB_NAME)
    });
 
    it('Can find a document inserted in a fresh test', () => {
        return insertDoc()
            .then(getDoc)
            .then((doc) => expect(doc).not.to.be.null);
    });
 
    it('cannot find a document inserted in a previous test', () => {
        return getDoc()
            .then((doc) => expect(doc).to.be.null);
    });
});
 

Methods

constructor(port)

port is optional, defaults to 27017

const testWithMongo = new TestWithMongo();

or

const testWithMongo = new TestWithMongo(26016);

testWithMongo.getConnectionString(dbName)

returns the connection string for the db 'dbName'

testWithMongo.startMongoServer()

returns a promise that resolves when a new mongod is running

comments

• this will delete the contents of any db that may exist from a previous run
  • testWithMongo.clean() is called to start
• this should only be called once before any tests are run

testWithMongo.clean()

returns a promise that resolves when all mongo data created by test-with-mongo, if any, is deleted

testWithMongo.dropDb(dbName)

returns a promise that resolves when the db with name dbName is dropped