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This application needs some sort of a test framework to make sure it's all functioning properly automatically.

Mocha is great, but it lacks on a coverage tool, so you would also need istanbul (nyc) as well.
tap is a really great tester, and nyc coverage is included. I can't really get the mocha-like syntax to work with tap though, so I gave up and have been using Mocha in my projects so far. I'd down to revisit BDD with tap.

Also you need to decide on an assertion library like should.js (others also use chai).

Testing APIs is kinda tricky. You need to wait for a callback with Mocha.

Here is how I test an older SOAP API with Mocha and Should -- note the use of done() here and a module which uses callbacks soapclient.logIn:

it('returns a 36 character token if passed valid credentials', function(done) {
  var args = {
    domain: arg_domain,
    username: arg_user,
    password: arg_pass
  }
  soapclient.logIn(args, function(err, result) {
    should.not.exist(err)
    result['return']['status']['$value'].should.equal('completed')
    admin_token = result['return']['result']['$value']
    console.log(result['return']['message']['$value'] +' token: '+admin_token)
    admin_token.should.have.length(36)
    done()
  })
})