Promised supertest

[robinvdvleuten]

Hi there,

After seeing that there is a PR already since 2014 (#163) and I really like using AVA, Express and some async gallore I thought to open this PR to push some things forward

Now you can do this with the already awesome supertest library;

const test = require('ava')
const request = require('supertest')
const app = require('../lib/app')

test('returns Hello World! on request', async t => {
  await request(app)
    .get('/')
    .expect('Content-Type', /text/)
    .expect('Hello, World!')
    .expect(200)
})

[benesch]

I too got frustrated by SuperTest's unwillingness to support promises, so if you're looking for an immediate solution, I built SuperTest-as-Promised: https://github.com/WhoopInc/supertest-as-promised

[Alex-Mann]

Any idea on when this will make it into master?

[benesch]

SuperAgent shipped a nearly identical PR, so I think you can actually get this behavior in the latest version of SuperTest!

[lirantal]

@robinvdvleuten I don't want to hijack this thread but would you mind explaining how do you setup your tests for expressjs with a db using ava?

[LegNeato]

Relatedly, I just put up a PR if you want to use promises / async functions in expect(). I needed this because my database stuff uses promises and I use async/await.

#402