Do you want the benefits of contract testing with much less effort? Are you convinced of the benefits of contract testing but think it’s just too di

Streamlined Contract Testing in Node.js: A Simple and Achievable Approach

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Do you want the benefits of contract testing with much less effort? Are you convinced of the benefits of contract testing but think it’s just too difficult to roll out across your organization?

In this article, I’ll show you a drastically simplified approach to contract testing that a single developer can bring online. You'll get many of the benefits of contract testing for much less work. You'll build a platform that will help convince your team of how much contract testing can help prevent problems going out to production.

If you've ever tried to read the Pact documentation, you might think contract testing is a complicated team-based affair that requires new infrastructure. Let me show you that it doesn’t have to be this way.

You’ll need Node.js installed to run the example code. The code repository contains three working examples that we’ll go through in turn. Follow along and try out each example for yourself.