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Creates apidoc.js documentation from jest tests

Create a jest-apidoc.json at project root with the following structure

{
    "outFolder": string, // path to write apidoc to
    "ignoreRoutes": string[], // array of routes to ignore
}

From your tests, call setApiResponse({ method, params, status, response }). I recommend writing an api request wrapper like so (uses supertest):

const request = require('supertest');
const { setApiResponse } = require('jest-apidoc');
const server = require('./app');

const apiRequest = async (
  method,
  url,
  params = {},
) => {
  const loadedServer = request(server);
  let requestBuilder;

  switch (method) {
    case GET:
      requestBuilder = loadedServer.get(url).query(params);
      break;
    case POST:
      requestBuilder = loadedServer.post(url).send(params);
      break;
    case DELETE:
      requestBuilder = loadedServer.delete(url).send(params);
      break;
    case PUT:
      requestBuilder = loadedServer.put(url).send(params);
      break;
    case PATCH:
      requestBuilder = loadedServer.patch(url).send(params);
      break;
    default:
      throw new Error(`No method for: ${method}`);
  }

  return requestBuilder
    .set('Content-Type', 'application/json')
    .then((res) => {
        setApiResponse({ method, params, status: res.statusCode, response });
        return res;
    });
};

Expects tests to be structured like:

describe('some-route.routes.js`, () => {
    describe('GET /some-route', () => {
        test('some functionality', async () => {
            ...
        });
    });
});

In your test setup file, add the writeApiDoc() in the afterAll()

const { writeApiDoc } = require('jest-apidoc');

afterAll(() => {
    writeApiDoc();
})

Above will write all response set through setApiResponse() to the outFolder of jest-apidoc.json

See /example for test and generate api doc example