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api-inspect
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API inpection library
$ npm install api-inspect
let apiInspect = require('api-inspect');
let inspect = require('inspect.js');
apiInspect.get('http://example.com/api/info').test((ctx) => {
ctx.statusCode(200);
ctx.responseTime(50);
ctx.contentType('application/json');
inspect(ctx.body).isJSON();
inspect(ctx.body).isEql({
state: 'OK',
version: 'v1.0.1'
});
});
let apiInspect = require('api-inspect');
let app = express(); // gets express app anywhere
apiInspect.setApi(app);
apiInspect.get('/api/info').test(ctx => {
// do your tests
});
// API calls to the internet will still work
apiInspect.get('http://inspectjs.com/test').test(ctx => {
// do your tests
});
FAQs
API inpection library
The npm package api-inspect receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, api-inspect popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that api-inspect demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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