Unit Testing for Typescript & NodeJs Developers with Jest

A must have skill for senior developers

Typescript is getting more and more popularity and it is a required skill for many IT jobs. It’s key feature is type safety, thus preventing bugs.

But yes another skill is very important for any programming job: unit testing. Combining these two techniques will result in solid, robust and bug free code.

This course will go beyond the basics of unit testing and teach you all you need to write real world, complex testing suites for NodeJs and Typescript applications using the most popular JavaScript testing library: Jest.

Using Jest as an unit testing library provides many advantages:

Unitary unit testing library for running and structuring tests

Extensive mocking, stubbing and spying capabilities

Powerful matchers to create simple to read tests

Jest ships as one unitary NPM package

Jest is the default choice for TypeScript React projects

Why unit testing NodeJs apps?

Unit testing usually adds a lot to a code base, two or tree times in some cases. This also means that a lot of time needs to be invested in writing and setting up tests. But all this effort pays of: time, effort and headache of fixing bugs can be used for more fun activities.