NestJS · Senior · Question 37 of 75

How do you test that guards, pipes and filters are wired correctly for a route?

✓Correct answer: With e2e tests through the HTTP layer: unauthorized requests get 401/403, invalid bodies get 400, errors have the expected format
2By reading the decorators manually
3With unit tests of the service only

Explanation

Unit tests of a controller method skip the enhancers, so wiring bugs only show up in HTTP-level tests.

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