Testing JavaScript code

Patryk Kocielnik

Writing with the hope that a record of the random things people do around can save some duplication of effort -- except for fun.

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26 Jul 2018 • 1 min read

Alexander Paterson offers a guide around TDD in NodeJS here.

Jasmine from here was once recommended to me for its super-simple syntax.

Manually inspect source code

To preview data structures in JavaScript, you can use some of the functions mentioned there:

console.log(my_object)

console.log(JSON.stringify(myObject, null, 4));

const util = require('util')
console.log(util.inspect(my_object))

console.dir(my_object)