Testing

Testing is important. In actuality, it is easy to test Hono's applications. The way to create a test environment differs from each runtime, but the basic steps are the same. In this section, let's test with Cloudflare Workers and Jest.

Request and Response

All you do is create a Request and pass it to the Hono application to validate the Response. And, you can use app.request the useful method.

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For a typed test client see the testing helper.

For example, consider an application that provides the following REST API.

app.get('/posts', (c) => {
  return c.text('Many posts')
})

app.post('/posts', (c) => {
  return c.json(
    {
      message: 'Created',
    },
    201,
    {
      'X-Custom': 'Thank you',
    }
  )
})

Make a request to GET /posts and test the response.

describe('Example', () => {
  test('GET /posts', async () => {
    const res = await app.request('/posts')
    expect(res.status).toBe(200)
    expect(await res.text()).toBe('Many posts')
  })
})

To make a request to POST /posts, do the following.

test('POST /posts', async () => {
  const res = await app.request('/posts', {
    method: 'POST',
  })
  expect(res.status).toBe(201)
  expect(res.headers.get('X-Custom')).toBe('Thank you')
  expect(await res.json()).toEqual({
    message: 'Created',
  })
})

To make a request to POST /posts with JSON data, do the following.

test('POST /posts', async () => {
  const res = await app.request('/posts', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify({ message: 'hello hono' }),
    headers: new Headers({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }),
  })
  expect(res.status).toBe(201)
  expect(res.headers.get('X-Custom')).toBe('Thank you')
  expect(await res.json()).toEqual({
    message: 'Created',
  })
})

To make a request to POST /posts with multipart/form-data data, do the following.

test('POST /posts', async () => {
  const formData = new FormData()
  formData.append('message', 'hello')
  const res = await app.request('/posts', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: formData,
  })
  expect(res.status).toBe(201)
  expect(res.headers.get('X-Custom')).toBe('Thank you')
  expect(await res.json()).toEqual({
    message: 'Created',
  })
})

You can also pass an instance of the Request class.

test('POST /posts', async () => {
  const req = new Request('http://localhost/posts', {
    method: 'POST',
  })
  const res = await app.request(req)
  expect(res.status).toBe(201)
  expect(res.headers.get('X-Custom')).toBe('Thank you')
  expect(await res.json()).toEqual({
    message: 'Created',
  })
})

In this way, you can test it as like an End-to-End.

Env

To set c.env for testing, you can pass it as the 3rd parameter to app.request. This is useful for mocking values like Cloudflare Workers Bindings:

const MOCK_ENV = {
  API_HOST: 'example.com',
  DB: {
    prepare: () => {
      /* mocked D1 */
    },
  },
}

test('GET /posts', async () => {
  const res = await app.request('/posts', {}, MOCK_ENV)
})