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All 14 Tests Are Passing But I Get an Error That Won’t Let Me Proceed :
As described in the title. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

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Did you set NODE_ENV === 'test' in the environment variables?

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If I do that all the test time out :confused:

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Ok, so I added test back in and now I’m getting a new error. The test again are all showing as passed but then I’m getting this error. How can I be passing the tests but getting this error that’s in one of the tests?
My solution link is updated.

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I had a look at your code and there are issues with earlier tests. I’ll have a play around with it when I get home and let you know if I figure out why your res.body[0] is coming up undefined.

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Thanks. I can’t for the life of me work out why it’s returning undefined.
I also don’t understand why the tests are showing as passed even though they clearly aren’t…

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A lot of the tests really should POST data before testing it. You shouldn’t rely on hardcoded values, they should be the actual values you get back from using the API.

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Apologies, I didn’t get a chance for a proper look at your code until now.
The good news is that I forked your repl and played around with it and now it works.

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The bad news is that I’m not entirely sure what was causing it to fail previously, though there were a number of issues which I fixed (all in the functional-tests file).
I’m working right now but I’ll come back to you again later with my findings…

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Thanks dude. I’ve had another go at this now that I’ve taken a break and I think I worked out my issues.
I think all the tests are passing now with no errors. But when I click ‘I completed this challenge’ all the tests seem to time out with freeCodeCamp. Any ideas how I get this to pass?

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Thanks for all your help guys. I spammed running it and got it to pass!

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Glad you got it working in the end!

There is a problem with the tests hanging the repl (which then causes the FCC tests to timeout). I think that some of the boilerplates have recently been updated to prevent this but - if you experience this issue again - another simple fix is to add this to the bottom of your functional-tests file:

after(function() {
  chai.request(server)
  .get('/')
});

This restarts the repl, preventing the timeouts caused by a hanging repl.

The only other observation I have is that you use assert.equal for all of your tests.
It’s no criticism but, if I want to assert that something is an object for instance, I’d personally use assert.isObject(res.body[0], 'res.body[0] is an object'). There’s a whole library of useful assertions which can make the code a little cleaner I think.

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Hey,
I forgot to say, thanks for this. I implemeneted this on the next project :slight_smile:

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