Node.js testing RESTful API (vows.js?)

Question

I could really do with some advice on testing a RESTful api I created in node.js. There are a plethora of frameworks out there and I am at a loss. My testing knowledge isn\'t go

Answer 1

http://blog.nodejitsu.com/rest-easy-test-any-api-in-nodejs is designed for this very purpose. It's a DSL that sits on top of Vows that streamlines the process of writing out tests using vows.

Basic test:

//
// Here we will configure our tests to use 
// http://localhost:8080 as the remote address
// and to always send 'Content-Type': 'application/json'
//
suite.use('localhost', 8000)
     .setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
     //
     // A GET Request to /ping
     //   should respond with 200
     //   should respond with { pong: true }
     //
     .get('/ping')
       .expect(200, { pong: true })
     //
     // A POST Request to /ping
     //   should respond with 200
     //   should respond with { dynamic_data: true }
     //
     .post('/ping', { dynamic_data: true })
       .expect(200, { dynamic_data: true })