Using Frisby and Jest with William Imoh on Real Talk Javascript #90

William Imoh joins John, Dan, and Craig to talk about testing with Frisby.js and Joi. What are Frisby and Jest? How does Frisby make life easier? What is Postman? How do you handle authentication? How do you pass tokens or specify environment data?

Using Frisby and Jest

const podcast = { 
  episode: 90,
  title: 'Using Frisby and Jest',
  topics: [ 
    'Frisby', 'Jest', 'javascript',
  ],
  guest: 'William Imoh'
  hosts: [
    'John Papa', 'Dan Wahlin', 'Craig Shoemaker'
  ]
};

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

William Imoh @iChuloo

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Resources:

• Frisby.js RESTful API testing
• Jasmine for testing
• Jest testing
• Postman API tool
• Insomnia API tool
• Swagger API documentation tool
• Joi
• API and Usage of Frisby with Auth tokens
• Faker.js
• Memory Maker book
• Azure Static Web Apps
• Eleventy
• Elgato Key Light

Timejumps

• 02:42 Guest introduction
• 04:25 What are Frisby and Jest?
• 05:37 How does Frisby make life easier?
• 06:42 What is Postman?
• 13:29 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 14:30 Getting Joi from Frisby
• 18:50 How do you handle authentication?
• 25:41 Sponsor: Nrwl
• 26:14 How do you pass tokens or specify environment data?
• 28:08 Any frustrations with this set up?
• 31:16 How does it handle file uploads?
• 34:50 Final thoughts