When working on my nodeJS project, I encounter some kind of difficulties on the following scenario
I wrote an expressJS application, which in turn being allocated to be unit tested, the problem is I want to pass the expressJS application to my test program, so I figure out I can export the "app" from the "index.js", so I add
export default app
in my index.js, so finally I can export the app variable and import it to my unit test. But the problem is when I import the module, I also execute the code associated with module which is not what I want, is there anything like Python's if __name__ == "__main__"?
I just want to import the module without executing it, so I end up with the following strategies
I wrap all the actions in a function and return my app at the end
export function initApp() {
app.use...
app.use...
return app;
}
Then I add this important snippet
if (require.main === module) {
initApp();
}
This is important ! It tells nodeJS only if this file being run by node can the initApp being executed, so in my unit test case, I could just safely import this module without unintentionally execute the initApp function
