Refactored and fixed the frontend test that was failing.

frontend/src/User/userActions.js

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export function requestLogin(payload) {
 
 export function autoLoginSuccess(user) {
   return {
-    type: UserTypes.LOGIN,
+    type: UserTypes.AUTO_LOGIN_SUCCESS,
     user
   };
 }

frontend/src/User/userActions.unit.spec.js

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import { expect } from 'chai';
 import * as actions from './userActions';
 import * as UserTypes from './UserTypes';
 
+const USER = { email: 'e@g.com', name: 'e' };
+
 describe('user actions', () => {
   it('should create an action when working', () => {
     const isWorking = true;
@@ -35,4 +37,46 @@ describe('user actions', () => {
     };
     expect(actions.userSuccess(user)).to.eql(expectedAction);
   });
+  it('should create an action when login successful', () => {
+    const expectedAction = {
+      type: UserTypes.REQUEST_LOGIN_SUCCESS,
+      user: USER
+    };
+    expect(actions.requestLoginSuccess(USER)).to.eql(expectedAction);
+  });
+  it('should create an action when login fails', () => {
+    const error = 'some error';
+    const expectedAction = {
+      type: UserTypes.REQUEST_LOGIN_FAILED,
+      error
+    };
+    expect(actions.requestLoginFailed(error)).to.eql(expectedAction);
+  });
+  it('should create an action when error cleared', () => {
+    const expectedAction = {
+      type: UserTypes.CLEAR_LOGIN_ERROR
+    };
+    expect(actions.clearLoginError()).to.eql(expectedAction);
+  });
+  it('should create an action when auto login successful', () => {
+    const expectedAction = {
+      type: UserTypes.AUTO_LOGIN_SUCCESS,
+      user: USER
+    };
+    expect(actions.autoLoginSuccess(USER)).to.eql(expectedAction);
+  });
+  it('should create an action when auto login fails', () => {
+    const error = 'some error';
+    const expectedAction = {
+      type: UserTypes.AUTO_LOGIN_FAILED,
+      error
+    };
+    expect(actions.autoLoginFailed(error)).to.eql(expectedAction);
+  });
+  it('should create an action when logout requested', () => {
+    const expectedAction = {
+      type: UserTypes.LOGOUT
+    };
+    expect(actions.requestLogout()).to.eql(expectedAction);
+  });
 });

models/db/db.js

@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ mongoose.Promise = global.Promise;
 const config = require('./config');
 
 async function init() {
-  await mongoose.connect(config.uri);
+  await mongoose.connect(
+    config.uri,
+    { useNewUrlParser: true }
+  );
 }
 
 async function close() {