Does testcafe support testing of rest api

Question

Tests hang in the testcafe browser when you try to test a rest api url directly.

I am trying to run a test against my rest API endpoint using request hooks, but when

Answer 1

You are right, TestCafe is intended to work with html pages, but it will use the "about:blank" page if you don't define any url. You can use the regular node.js HTTP API without request hooks for this case. Look at the following example:

import http from 'http';

const getResponseData = (url) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    http.get(url, res => {
        const { statusCode } = res;
        const contentType = res.headers['content-type'];

        res.setEncoding('utf8');
        let rawData = '';
        res.on('data', (chunk) => { rawData += chunk; });
        res.on('end', () => resolve({ statusCode, contentType, rawData }));
    }).on('error', e => reject(e));
});

fixture `Test REST API`;

test('Simple Test', async t => {
    const response = await getResponseData('http://example.com/api/1');
    await t
        .expect(response.statusCode).eql(200);
});