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socket.io-mock
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A mock to test the socket.io library implementation.
🚀 Now written in ES6! Bundled with rollup.
Don't forget to enable
pkg.modulein your rollup config.
npm install socket.io-mock
Simply create new socket mock with:
import MockedSocket from 'socket.io-mock';
let socket = new MockedSocket();
And use the socket as if it was a normal Socket.io socket.
For example:
import SocketMock from 'socket.io-mock';
import { expect } from 'chai';
describe('Fast and isolated socket tests', function(){
it('Sockets should be able to talk to each other without a server', function(done) {
let socket = new SocketMock();
socket.on('message', function (message) {
expect(message).to.equal('Hello World!');
});
socket.socketClient.emit('message', 'Hello World!');
});
});
FAQs
a mocked version of a socket.io socket for testing
The npm package socket.io-mock receives a total of 13,846 weekly downloads. As such, socket.io-mock popularity was classified as popular.
We found that socket.io-mock 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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