⛔️ server did not start in time - node validate.js

Yeah. I kept on getting the same issue. I'm on windows by the way.

I looked into into validate.js and I noticed that It is trying to start the server on a random port etc and it also tries to update model.js with a random hex string to test 500 error.

so, in order to run validate.js tests successfully, I did below

• comment out these lines from start() function of validate.js. and define port separately on 3000
  

• run validate.js once. it will fail but dont worry. depending on what you are testing, it will insert random hex string to model.js. e.g., in del function, it inserted as below

take a note of these string - '4e7b'

• then, at the top of validate.js, use that sting as below

• Now, all your tests should run fine. (ofcourse if your code is correct ;-) )

@mohamedbamoh I had the same issue with the same lab, I did increase the timeout number at line #49 of the validate script

timeouts being increased for all server validation scripts