karma-restify-server

Makes it easy to globally start a restify server for karma unit tests.

Installation

npm install karma-restify-server --save-dev

Usage

// karma.conf.js
module.exports = function(config) {
  // ... snip
  frameworks: [ 'restify-server' ],
  restifyServer: {
    port: 8888,
    beforeStart: (server) => {
      server.get('/testurl', (req, res) => {
        res.charSet('utf-8');
        res.send({
          data: 'Mock'
        });
      });
    },
    afterStart: (server) => {
      console.log('Server now listening on port %s', server.url);
    }
  }
});

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The configuration object

After the framework is added to the karma configuration, you can control its behaviour with the restifyServer configuration object. The object holds three seperate items:

port (Number):

The port the server will run on. Defaults to 8888 if not provided.

beforeStart (Function):

This callback is invoked directly before the server starts to listen. It takes the created restify instance as parameter. Use this callback to add your routes to the configuration.

afterStart (Function):

This callback is invoked after the server started to listen. It takes the created restify instance as parameter.

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Special thanks

Special thanks go to Tadas Subonis for creating karma-express-http-server where I borrowed some of the code.

Licence

karma-restify-server is available under MIT-License and can therefore be used in any project free of charge.