Ensuring Express App is running before each Mocha Test

Question

I am working on developing a REST API using ExpressJS, NodeJS, Mongoose and Mocha.

The thing is that I have an app.coffee file, thats responsible for setting up Expr

Answer 1

The app.listen method takes a callback that runs when everything is ready. So, you need to be able to pass the done callback there. Something like

before (done) ->
  var app = require(__dirname + '/../src/app')
  app.listen(3000, done)