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Pankaj Dalvi
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Unit testing in Strapi

#unittest #jest #strapi

Strapi has been there around for quite some time now with a lot of organisations using it as their go to production framework for building cool apps using React , angular etc.

However the more you search but less you find is about unit testing in strapi. There are lot of blogs that are termed as Unit testing in strapi however they are technically doing end to end testing using a sqlite database making reals hit to apis and generating a real output.

The goal of this blog post is to shed some light on building unit tests for strapi, testing custom controller methods and services using unit tests.

Getting started

First and foremost create a sample strapi project. Below is the link for the same.

Install Dependencies

Run the below command to install jest dependency

npm install jest supertest  --save-dev
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Set-up Run comand

Add the below command in package.json file. You may tweak the start command SET NODE_ENV==test based on your OS. This command is specific to windows environment.

"SET NODE_ENV==test & jest --runInBand --detectOpenHandles --testPathPattern=unit-tests/"
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Create Custom Controller Method

Add the below command in package.json file. You may tweak the start command SET NODE_ENV==test based on your OS. This command is specific to windows environment.

Create Custom Service Method

Add the below command in package.json file. You may tweak the start command SET NODE_ENV==test based on your OS. This command is specific to windows environment.

Create Strapi Unit Tests For Controller

Add the below command in package.json file. You may tweak the start command SET NODE_ENV==test based on your OS. This command is specific to windows environment.

Create Strapi Unit tests For Services

Add the below command in package.json file. You may tweak the start command SET NODE_ENV==test based on your OS. This command is specific to windows environment.

Run Unit Tests

Add the below command in package.json file. You may tweak the start command SET NODE_ENV==test based on your OS. This command is specific to windows environment.

Github Repository

First and foremost create a sample strapi project. Below is the link for the same.

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