https://github.com/jacob414/mocha-jsdom

Experiment to run Mocha tests with a JSDom generated DOM (in Node.js)
https://github.com/jacob414/mocha-jsdom

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Experiment to run Mocha tests with a JSDom generated DOM (in Node.js)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jacob414/mocha-jsdom
• Owner: jacob414
• Created: 2014-02-20T13:36:23.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-02-20T13:56:47.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-11T13:02:27.752Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 113 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Mocha tests under Node.js with a jsdom

This is a proof of concept project to find a convenient way of running

Mocha tests via the Node.js runner using

[jsdom](https://www.npmjs.org/package/jsdom), to create a more browser

like environment. You might want to do that to test symantic aspects

of your program in Node.js without having to load the entire thing in

a browser, mostly for performance reasons.

The callback based ways described in jsdom's page will have a little

hard time to trigger Mocha to run your suites, so to do this you need

to use the methods described by jsdom's docs as "For the

hardcore". Actually it isn't that difficult, and this little project

shows how to do it.

## How to try:

Manual (at least for now). Clone, then prepare your directory by

running a `npm install`:

    $ npm install

You should see lots of output.

Have a look at the `test.js` file. It initializes a `jsdom` object in

the `describe` function and points a closure local '`document`' to it

in a way that preceding tests will have an environment that reasonably

much resembles a web browser. The `run.sh` script will run the spec.

A somewhat uglier but more realistic simulation for larger codebases

would be to assign the return value of the call to `jsdom.jsdom` to

`global.document`.