@golevelup/nestjs-testing v0.1.2
@golevelup/nestjs-testing
Description
Utilities for making testing NestJS applications easier. Currently supports Jest.
Motivation
You ever just come across a type that you want to mock, but mocking the entire object seems daunting, and who knows how many sub properties the object has and if those sub properties have sub properties. The list goes on with possible problems. Enter @golevelup/nestjs-testing
's createMock
utility function. This function will create a mock object for you with all sub properties mocked as jest.fn()
unless otherwise provided, to allow for easy mocking later on, but more on that later.
Side Note
This package and utility function was derived out of a want to help those unit testing things like Guards, Interceptors, and Filters, in NestJS; however, given the dynamic nature of the package, the createMock
utility function can handle so much more than just what's inside of NestJS. Essentially, if it has an interface, @golevelup/nestjs-testing
can mock it!
Usage
For examples we'll show how well it works with NestJS' ExecutionContext which extends NestJS' ArgumentHost.
Installation
Pretty standard installation, nothing too crazy
npm i @golevelup/nestjs-testing
or
yarn @golevelup/nestjs-testing
Creating Mocks
Here is where the fun begins. As a heads up, this function does require you to be using Typescript, as it takes advantage of some advanced Typescript features under the hood, like Proxies
.
- Import the
createMock
function into your test class - Create a variable and set it equal to the
createMock
function plus its generic type input - Use the mock, Luke.
Example:
import { createMock } from '@golevelup/nestjs-testing';
import { ExecutionContext } from '@nestjs/common';
describe('Mocked Execution Context', () => {
it('should have a fully mocked Execution Context', () => {
const mockExecutionContext = createMock<ExecutionContext>();
expect(mockExecutionContext.switchToHttp()).toBeDefined();
});
});
And just like that, the simplest mock can quickly and easily be made! "Big deal" you may say? It's easy to create a mock with a single property like that? Well, just watch this:
import { createMock } from '@golevelup/nestjs-testing';
import { ExecutionContext } from '@nestjs/common';
describe('Mocked Execution Context', () => {
it('should have a fully mocked Execution Context', () => {
const mockExecutionContext = createMock<ExecutionContext>();
expect(mockExecutionContext.switchToHttp().getRequest()).toBeDefined();
expect(mockExecutionContext.switchToRPC().getContext()).toBeDefined();
expect(mockExecutionContext.switchToWs().getClient()).toBeDefined();
});
});
How's that for ya? No, still not impressed? All right, time to bring out the big guns.
import { createMock } from '@golevelup/nestjs-testing';
import { ExecutionContext } from '@nestjs/common';
describe('Mocked Execution Context', () => {
it('should have a fully mocked Execution Context', () => {
const mockExecutionContext = createMock<ExecutionContext>({
switchToHttp: () => ({
getRequest: () =({
headers: {
authorization: 'auth'
}
})
})
});
mockExecutionContext.switchToHttp().getResponse.mockReturnValue({data: 'res return data'});
expect(mockExecutionContext.switchToHttp().getRequest()).toEqual({
headers: {
authorization: 'auth'
}
});
expect(mockExecutionContext.switchToHttp().getResponse()).toEqual({
data: 'res return data'
});
expect(mockExecutionContext.switchToHttp).toBeCalledTimes(3);
expect(mockExecutionContext.switchToRPC().getContext()).toBeDefined();
expect(mockExecutionContext.switchToWs().getClient()).toBeDefined();
});
});
Note: Be aware that when providing your own mocks, if you asserting how many times you called a parent mock function, the number will be equal to the number of times the function was called in your
expects
plus the number of times the function had to be called to set your mocks. In the above case, we had to callswitchToHttp()
once to set the mock forgetResponse()
and twice for theexpect
calls, so it was called in a total of three times.
The above case shows how well the createMock
utility can take in user provided values as well as returning type safe mocks that can easily be chained and modified as needed.
For a few more examples on what can be done the mock.spec file has some really cool examples that show pretty well just what is doable with this utility.