How to chain http calls with superagent/supertest?

Question

I am testing an express API with supertest.

I couldn\'t get multiple requests in a test case to work with supertest. Below is what i tried in a test case. But the test c

Answer 1

This can be most elegantly solved with promises, and there's a really useful library to use promises with supertest: https://www.npmjs.com/package/supertest-as-promised

Their example:

return request(app)
  .get("/user")
  .expect(200)
  .then(function (res) {
    return request(app)
      .post("/kittens")
      .send({ userId: res})
      .expect(201);
  })
  .then(function (res) {
    // ... 
  });