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grunt-mocha-runner

Serve a mocha runner page with the source and spec script paths configured in your Gruntfile.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-mocha-runner --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

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

The mochaRunner task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  mochaRunner: {
    all: {
      scripts: [
        'src/*.js',
        'test/spec/*.js'],
      styles: ['styles/*.css']
    },
  },
})

Options

port

Type: Integer Default value: 8000

The port on which to serve the test runner.

hostname

Type: String Default: 'localhost'

The hostname on which to serve the test runner.

Setting it to '*' will make the it accessible from anywhere.

title

Type: String Default: 'Mocha Spec Runner'

The title of the test runner page.

ui

Type: String Default: 'bdd'

The mocha ui type to use with mocha.setup().

Usage example

The mochaRunner task builds and serves the mocha test runner page, but doesn't handle the actual opening of the page to run the tests. For that, we need an additional grunt task. grunt-mocha works really well for this. Here is a basic Gruntfile example showing grunt-mocha and grunt-mocha-runner being used together:

module.exports = function (grunt) {
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-mocha');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-mocha-runner');

  grunt.initConfig({
    // serves the runner page
    mochaRunner: {
      all: {
        scripts: [
          'test/app/spec/**/*.js',
          'app/scripts/**/*.js'],
      }
    },
    // opens the runner page to run the tests
    mocha: {
      options: {
        run: true,
        reporter: 'Spec',
      },
      test: {
        options: {
          // url to the runner page served by mochaRunner
          urls: ['http://localhost:8000']
        }
      }
    }
  });

  grunt.registerTask('test', [
    'mochaRunner',
    'mocha'
  ]);
};

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