This package makes testing publications in Meteor easier and nicer.

Instead of resorting to exporting or exposing your publication functions for doing testing, this package lets you "subscribe" to a given publication and assert its returned results.

meteor add johanbrook:publication-collector

// In a typical BDD style test suite:

describe('Publication', function() {
  if('should publish 10 documents', function() {
    // Pass user context in constructor.
    const collector = new PublicationCollector({userId: Random.id()});

    // Collect documents from a subscription with 'collect(name, [arguments...], [callback])'
    collector.collect('publicationName', 'someArgument', (collections) => {
      assert.equal(collections.myCollection.length, 10);
    });
  });
});

An instance of PublicationCollector also is an EventEmitter, and emits a ready event when the publication is marked as ready.

Run tests once with

npm test

Run tests in watch mode (in console) with

npm run test:dev

This project was originally a part of MDG's Todos example Meteor app, but later extracted as a separate test package.

Based on https://github.com/stubailo/meteor-rest/blob/devel/packages/rest/http-subscription.js.

• Make tests pass.
• More docs.
• Support Promises.