Ask HN: Node framework with best testing support

4 points by aman-pro 8 years ago | 5 comments

I am working on Sails JS for a large project and trying to write unit tests in it.

I am not too happy with the support for unit testing in Sails. It takes a good 7-10 seconds before it starts running the test cases, there is no out-of-the-box support for fixtures as well.

Are there any frameworks that can handle test cases in a more efficient way?

niftylettuce 8 years ago |

We're going to release Lad beta soon (uses Koa), https://lad.js.org. Right now our tests use ava, which runs in parallel. Feel free to join our Slack.

ajeet_dhaliwal 8 years ago | |

I concur with Ava, it's very cool and has clean syntax and is well featured and documented.

Since aman-pro is working on a large project (with multiple devs and continuous integration possibly?) keep in mind solid reporting too. Check my profile for my highly biased opinion on what's best for that, but seriously feel free to contact me, I can provide hands on help.

iends 8 years ago |

Sails had a bad reputation in a lot of NodeJS circles. Most people use express/koa and use knex or pg-promise.

aman-pro 8 years ago | |

Sails looks like a great framework otherwise. What is the reason for its bad reputation?

olingern 8 years ago | | |

I think this thread [1] along with unstable modules were convincing enough for people not to trust their production applications with an open source project that has a shaky future.

Most people who were interested in the approach moved their efforts to TrailsJS [2]

[1] - https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/issues/3429

[2] - https://trailsjs.io