mongo-unit

This library is done to simplify creation of integration tests for node.js application with Mongo DB. I starts local mongodb process using mongodb-prebuilt library, and it work in "InMemory" mode, which improve performance of your tests.

How to use it

Since running embedded mongo takes some time, we need to config mocha to wait until mongo is up and running, the easiest way to do it add --delay flag for mocha and handle async flow, like this

//package.json
...
"scripts": {
        ...
        "test": "mocha ./**/*.spec.js --delay",
        ...
    },
...

add init.spec.js

//init.spec.js
const mongoUnit = require('mongo-unit')

mongoUnit.start().then(() => {
  console.log('fake mongo is started: ', mongoUnit.getUrl())
  process.env.DATABASE_URL = mongoUnit.getUrl() // this var process.env.DATABASE_URL = will keep link to fake mongo
  run() // this line start mocha tests
})

after(() => {
  const dao = require('./dao')
  console.log('stop')
  dao.close()
  return mongoUnit.stop()
})

Code under test

//dao.js
const mongoose = require('mongoose')

const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: String,
})
const taskSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  userId: String,
  task: String,
})

module.exports = {
  init: () => mongoose.connect(process.env.DATABASE_URL),
  close: () => mongoose.disconnect(),
  User: mongoose.model('user', userSchema),
  Task: mongoose.model('task', taskSchema),
}

Test data

{
  "users": [
    {
      "_id": "56d9bf92f9be48771d6fe5b1",
      "name": "test"
    },
    {
      "_id": "56d9bf92f9be48771d6fe5b2",
      "name": "John"
    }
  ],
  "tasks": [
    {
      "userId": "56d9bf92f9be48771d6fe5b1",
      "task": "do stuff"
    },
    {
      "userId": "56d9bf92f9be48771d6fe5b1",
      "task": "fix stuff"
    }
  ]
}

Mocha test

//dao.spec.js
const {expect} = require('chai')
const mongoUnit = require('mongo-unit')
const testData = require('./data.json')
const daoUT = require('./dao')
describe('dao', ()=>{
  
    before(() => daoUT.init())
    beforeEach(() => mongoUnit.load(testData))
    afterEach(() => mongoUnit.drop())
  
    it('should find all users', () => {
      return daoUT.User.find()
        .then(users => {
          expect(users.length).to.equal(2)
          expect(users[0].name).to.equal('test')
        })
    })
  
    it('should find all tasks for user 1', () => {
      return daoUT.User.find()
        .then(users => users[0])
        .then(user=>daoUT.Task.find({userId: user._id}))
        .then(tasks => {
          expect(tasks.length).to.equal(2)
          expect(tasks[0].task).to.equal('do stuff')
        })
    })
  })

General info

I was inspired by dbUnit library, which is very popular in java world.

There is alternative library for mocking Mongo: mockgoose

Requirements

It works on Node.js 8+

Installation

npm install -D mongo-unit

API

start(opts)

It starts mongod on one of available port and returns Promise with URL to connect to this db opts is optional params, you can specify some command line params for mongod (more about it in documentation for mongodb-prebuilt) opts.port - preferable mongo db port, default: 27017 opts.dbName - name of test db, default: test opts.dbpath - db path, default: <node_modules/mongo-unit>\.mongo-unit opts.verbose - enable debug informaton for mongodb-prebuilt, default: false

stop()

It stops mongod process

getUrl()

Syncronius API returns URL to connect to test db, if test DB is not started it thows an Exception

load(data)

Inserts given data (like below) DB collections, returns Promise.

{
  "collectionName1":[
    {"field1":"value1"},
    {"field2":"value2"}
  ],
  "collectionName2":[
    {"field3":"value3"},
    {"field4":"value4"}
  ]
}

clean(data)

Clear collections based on given data (data format is the same), returns Promise.

drop()

Drops test DB, returns Promise.

initDb(url, data)

helper function, load db data into mongo (url)

dropDb(url)

helper function, clear all db data from mongo (url)