grunt-magic-mocha

Grunt task to run front-end mocha unit tests from the command line with no browser.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.4 -- Learn to use Grunt

Install the plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-magic-mocha --save-dev

Enable in your Gruntfile with:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-magic-mocha');

NOTE: If you get errors installing this module, it is probably caused by the contextify dependency of jsDOM. There is more information here.

If you are using Linux, you may just need to update your version of NodeJS. The most up-to-date version can be found here. You will need to download the file, untar it and then run the following commands within the new directory:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Quick setup

grunt.initConfig({
  magic_mocha: {
    myTests: {
      files: {
        src: ['test/**/*_test.js']
      }
    }
  }
});

The "magic_mocha" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named magic_mocha to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  magic_mocha: {
    myTestsWithOptions: {
      options: {
        globals: {
          // Add the jQuery module to the window object
          '$': 'jquery'
        },
        mochaOptions:{
          // You should be able to include any mocha options here
          reporter: "spec",
          ui: "bdd"
        }
      },
      files: {
        src: ['test/**/*_test.js']
      }
    }
  }
});

Options

options.globals

Type: object

Specifies modules that should be attached to the global window variable.

options.mochaOptions

Type: object

Specifies any mocha options to be used. For more details, look throught the Mocha documentation.

The following options are included by default:

• reporter - "spec"
• ui - "bdd"

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.