stub mocha/chai for testing server

server/knexfile.js

@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ module.exports = {
     connection: process.env.PG_CONNECTION_STRING
   },
 
+  test: {
+    client: 'postgresql',
+    connection: process.env.PG_CONNECTION_STRING_TEST
+  },
+
   staging: {
     client: 'postgresql',
     connection: process.env.PG_CONNECTION_STRING,

server/package.json

@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@
   "private": true,
   "scripts": {
     "start": "node ./bin/www",
+    "test": "mocha ./test/*",
     "make-migration": "./node_modules/.bin/knex migrate:make",
     "migrate": "./node_modules/.bin/knex migrate:latest",
     "seed": "./node_modules/.bin/knex seed:run"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "chai": "^4.2.0",
-    "chai-http": "^4.3.0",
     "cookie-parser": "~1.4.4",
     "cors": "^2.8.5",
     "debug": "~2.6.9",
@@ -21,5 +20,10 @@
     "morgan": "~1.9.1",
     "pg": "^7.17.0",
     "socket.io": "^2.3.0"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "chai": "^4.2.0",
+    "chai-http": "^4.3.0",
+    "mocha": "^7.0.0"
   }
 }

server/server.js

@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ const corsOptions = {
 app.options('*', cors(corsOptions));
 app.use('*', cors(corsOptions));
 
+// disable logging for tests
+if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'test') app.use(logger('dev'));
 
-app.use(logger('dev'));
 app.use(express.json());
 app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
 app.use(cookieParser());

server/test/spec.js

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+process.env.NODE_ENV = 'test';
+
+const chai = require('chai');
+const chaiHttp = require('chai-http');
+
+const app = require('../server');
+
+const should = chai.should();
+
+
+chai.use(chaiHttp);
+// ! to run tests from other testing modules
+// import someTest from './endpoint/someTest';
+
+describe('API Routes', function() {
+  // ! should be a function that returns tests to be run
+  // someTest(chai)
+});
+
+