example-runner

Run example files with assertions. example-runner can be used as a very basic test runner, optionally with a source transform function. This makes it suitable for testing JavaScript-to-JavaScript compilers such as es6-class, where it is used.

Install

$ npm install [--save-dev] example-runner

Usage

example-runner has two exported functions: run and runCLI. Most of the time you'll probably want to use runCLI which prints to stdout and exits with the appropriate status code. If you need to customize the output or exit behavior of example-runner, such as to fit it into another tool, you can use run.

runCLI(files, options)

With no arguments, runCLI will run test/examples/*.js.

require('example-runner').runCLI();

You can run specific files if you want:

require('example-runner').runCLI(['a.js', 'b.js']);

Provide the transform option if you want to modify your examples before running, such as with sweet.js:

require('example-runner').runCLI({
  transform: function(source, testName, filename, options) {
    return sweetjs.compile(source);
  }
});

The arguments given to transform are:

• source: A string with the source of the example file.
• testName: The base name of the example file, sans .js suffix.
• filename: The path to the example file.
• options: Options parsed from comments in the source of the example file. This is useful if how you transform the source is different per file and you need a way to configure it. For example, /* config a:b, log:true */ in the source file will create options like so: { config: { a: "b", log: true } }.

If you need to pass data to your example files, use the context option.

require('example-runner').runCLI({
  context: { mydata: [1, 2], mylib: require('mylib') }
});

Note that there are some default context properties:

• assert: This is the node assert library. At least one assertion must be made for an example file to be considered successful. You can disable this behavior by adding /* example-runner assert:false */ at the top of your example file.
• __options: This is the same options object passed to transform (see above).

run(files, options)

Like runCLI(), run() takes files and options. Unlike runCLI() it returns an EventEmitter that emits three events:

• pass(testName): called when an example file passes
• fail(testName, error): called when an example file fails, along with the error thrown
• done(passed, failed): called when all tests have run, along with the names of the passed and failed examples