Doing It Right Example: Testing middleware in isolation without issuing network calls and waking-up the entire Express machine

middleware-test.js

//the middleware we want to test
const unitUnderTest = require('./middleware')
const httpMocks = require('node-mocks-http');
//Jest syntax, equivelant to describe() & it() in Mocha
test('A request without authentication header, should return http status 403', () => {
  const request = httpMocks.createRequest({
    method: 'GET',
    url: '/user/42',
    headers: {
      authentication: ''
    }
  });
  const response = httpMocks.createResponse();
  unitUnderTest(request, response);
  expect(response.statusCode).toBe(403);
});